We present the first quantitative analysis of impact ending de jure segregation Mexican-American school children in United States by examining effects 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational attainment for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites California. Our identification strategy relies comparing individuals across California counties that vary their likelihood segregat...

African American males experience poor academic performance, high absenteeism at school, and are at increased risk of being involved in violence than other racial groups. Given that the educational outlook for African American males appears bleak, it is important to assess the aspirations of these adolescent males in order to find the gap between aspirations and educational attainment. In order...

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1947 to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance the law school admission process. The organization also provides programs and services related to legal education. All law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) are LSAC memb...

Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture. An article from journal Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle (Thematic Issue: The Social Lives Maps, volume 2), on Érudit.

This study tested the equivalence of a theoretical model of parenting behaviors linking financial strain to adolescents' achievement for African American and European American families and for single- and two-parent families. The sample included an economic cross-section of African American (n = 387) and European American families (n = 230) from single- (n = 171) and two-parent (n = 446) homes....

As the twenty-first century opens, says Robert Balfanz, the United States is developing a deep social consensus that American high schools should ensure that all adolescents graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary schooling and training. Balfanz asks how well high schools are succeeding in this mission and whether they can ultimately fulfill it. Balfanz first surveys the structure ...