Human Capital Or Cultural Capital?: Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District

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Transaction Publishers - 216 sider
This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion that experiences at home and school create a feedback loop by which the "cultural capital" of the students (their toolkit of skills, habits, and styles with which they construct strategies of action) evolves over time and largely determines differential success in mastering the teacher-assigned homework.

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Skills Habits Styles and School Success
7
Family Linguistic Culture and the Childs
21
Discussion
31
Cognitive Skill and Earnings Determination
33
Data Variables Methods
39
Bringing Skill Back In
56
The Dallas Research Setting Data Methods
63
Basic Skills
79
Intervening to Affect the Skills Habits
137
What Can Be Done?
144
Reading OneOne
151
Data and Methods for Studying Program Effects
160
Comparison with Other Programs
169
Discussion
175
Appendix
195
References
201

Habits and Styles
95
Coursework Mastery
107
Course Grades
119
Index
211
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