July 2016 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Equality of Educational Opportunity (hereafter EEO), commonly known as the Coleman Report after the lead investigator of the research team, James S. Coleman (Coleman et al. 1966). The Coleman Report and Educational Inequality Fifty Years Later celebrates the occasion. To set the stage for the papers that follow, we take a brief look in...

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) has been highly regarded as a landmark decision that set forth the promise of equality in education for all students. Today, almost sixty years later, the promise of equality still remains a promise as students of color continue to lag behind in educational attainment. Brown had an ambitious agenda that aimed to desegregate as an intermediate step to equalizin...

fair distribution of resources among various parts of the society and attention to social development in terms of providing primary educational and health facilities will bring about lasting effects on the countries' development. this paper tries to study social structures in five central asian nations. to do this, growth in sectors like health, education and percentage of state expenditur...

In industrialized nations sibship size generally depresses educational attainment—the larger the number of siblings, the lower the educational attainment, presumably because of the reduction of family resources (both material and intellectual) available to each child. However, this association is much less consistent in developing nations, and there is some evidence of substantial change over t...

This multi-national study hypothesized that higher levels of country-level gender equality would predict smaller differences in the frequency of women's compared to men's drinking in public (like bars and restaurants) settings and possibly private (home or party) settings. GENACIS project survey data with drinking contexts included 22 countries in Europe (8); the Americas (7); Asia (3); Austral...