Determined to Succeed?

Performance versus Choice in Educational Attainment

By: Michelle Jackson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 23 January 2013

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In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in performance. But is this presumption correct?

Determined to Succeed? is the first book to offer a comprehensive cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups, and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and parental education.

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"Following in the tradition of seminal works on comparative studies of education, Determined to Succeed offers an excellent assessment of social origin and educational attainment. Important and innovative, the volume is sure to find wide influence and readership in the sociology of education." - Hans Peter Blossfeld, University of Bamberg "Clear, systematic, and consistently high quality, this book offers an important contribution to the sociology of education and stratification." - Florencia Torche, New York University

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Preface	p. ix
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: How Is Inequality of Educational Opportunity Generated? The Case for Primary and Secondary Effects	p. 1
Primary and Secondary Effects: Some Methodological Issues	p. 34
Inequality in Transitions to Secondary School and Tertiary Education in Germany	p. 56
How Social Background Affects Educational Attainment over Time in the Netherlands	p. 89
Academic Achievement, Tracking Decisions, and Their Relative Contribution to Educational Inequalities: Change over Four Decades in France	p. 116
Social-Origin Inequalities in Educational Careers in Italy: Performance or Decision Effects?	p. 149
Ever-Declining Inequalities? Transitions to Upper Secondary and Tertiary Education in Sweden, 1972-1990 Birth Cohorts	p. 185
Dentist, Driver, or Dropout? Family Background and Secondary Education Choices in Denmark	p. 228
Social Background and Educational Transitions in England	p. 253
Class Origins, High School Graduation, and College Entry in the United States	p. 279
Why Does Inequality of Educational Opportunity Vary across Countries? Primary and Secondary Effects in Comparative Context	p. 306
Index	p. 339
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Performance versus Choice in Educational Attainment

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