Torche Comment on Downey and Condron

Autor/in	Torche, Florencia
Titel	Torche Comment on Downey and Condron
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 89 (2016) 3, S.229-230 (2 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040716651680
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Sociology; Socioeconomic Influences; Equal Education; Social Bias; Scores; Child Development; Well Being; School Role; Environmental Influences; Student Mobility; Educational Policy; Disadvantaged Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Kindesentwicklung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher
Abstract	in this article, Florencia Torche, professor of sociology at New York University, reflects on the central question posed by the Coleman Report: What role do schools play in promoting equality of opportunity? The Coleman Report relied on analysis of variance and regression analysis, but over the past 50 years, social scientists have developed new tools to address this question. The counterfactual revolution has raised awareness of the bias emerging from advantaged families selecting into better schools, tracks, teachers, and peers, and it offers experiments and natural experiments to examine the causal effects of schools, and schools' instructional and organizational resources, on student outcomes. Torche maintains that although still mostly restricted to test scores, the outcomes examined are, auspiciously, expanding to other domains, including children's health and well-being and longer-term outcomes such as employment and earnings. The new findings about early human development invite a novel understanding of the role of schools in reducing the influence of the accidents of birth. Torche's own scholarship examines stratification and mobility, educational inequalities, assortative mating, and the early emergence of disadvantage over the life course. Here she comments that if the learning process starts at conception, then the early life course should be a legitimate domain of educational policy. She then suggests that compensatory policies which provide educational resources to disadvantaged children are indeed necessary, but starting earlier than age five could yield the most substantial payoffs. [For "Fifty Years since the Coleman Report: Rethinking the Relationship between Schools and Inequality," see EJ1104970.] (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01