James M Mcpartland
Biographic Data
| ID | 174360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Mcpartland |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcpartland |
| SIGNATURE | MCPARTLAND J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Organizing Schools for Improvement
An American Imperative
Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity
James M. McPartland, Barbara Schneider, Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Common Core Curriculum, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 66-81
Exploring the Causes of Early Dropout among Race-Ethnic and Gender Groups
This study uses nationally representative high school student data to show raceethnicity and gender differences in reasons for early school dropout and plans for dropouts to resume their education. Factor analyses show that separate reasons for dropping out include school-related, family-related, and job-related causes, as well as influences from peers and residential mobility. White dropouts cited alienation from school more often than either Af…
Using Community Adults as Advocates or Mentors for At-Risk Middle School Students
The effects on selected student outcomes are evaluated after two years of operation of Project RAISE, a multifaceted approach featuring outside adults as school-based advocates and one-on-one mentors for at-risk students at seven middle schools. Positive effects are found on improving student attendance and report card grades in English, but not on promotion rates or standardized test scores. The effects, though sizable, were not sufficient to ne…
Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation
A few diverse studies show that racial segregation tends to be perpetuated over stages of the life cycle and across institutional settings (Braddock, 1980; Braddock and McPartland, 1982; Crain, 1970; McPartland and Crain, 1980; McPartland and Braddock, 1981; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1967: App. C5). Blacks who grow up in a largely segregated environment are more likely to lead their adult lives in segregated situations. And, at any given a…
Social Science Evidence and Affirmative Action Policies
How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities
Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process: the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotion stage. Using the authors' recent survey of 4078 employers covering a nationally representative sample of jobs, four types of exclusionary barriers are investigated: “segregated networks” at the candidate stage, “information bias” and “statistical discrimination” at …
Applicant Race and Job Placement Decisions
Net of controls for educational credentials, recommendations, age, high school quality, employment sector, firm size and region, white personnel officers tend to assign black male high school graduates to lower paying positions than those assigned to white male high school graduates in the USA. Similar patterns are observed for while female college graduates. The effect of job candidates' race on employers' job placement decisions is examined, us…
Desegregation as National Policy
To appropriately evaluate the effects of the national policy of desegregation on racial attitudes, data from a national probability sample of 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds were analyzed. From this analysis we conclude that for both whites and blacks desegregation is related positively to racial tolerance even for those areas and age-race groups in which the least tolerance is exhibited. The possibility of ceiling effects and social desirability confo…
Control and Differentiation in the Structure of American Education
The report by Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore on public and private schools is criticizedfor failing to consider alternative explanations of school effectiveness and for drawing narrow policy implications. We use student body composition to account for public and private school effectiveness as an alternative to the explanation of external constraints on school authorities implied by Public and Private Schools. We also emphasize the need to consider …
Violence in Schools
Violence in Schools
Open Schools and Achievement
Several extended tests of the relationship between the of a school's instructional program and student achievement fail to show sizeable or consistent positive or negative effects in a survey of 6,225 students from 39 elementary and secondary schools. Conventional analyses of the immediate impact of openness on student achievement, net offamily background, show that openness accounts for less than two percent of the variance in test scores and th…
The Concept and Measurement of the Quality of School Life
The Quality of School Life (QSL) is defined by three dimensions of student reactions: (1) satisfaction with school in general, (2) commitment to school work, and (3) attitudes toward teachers. A 27-item QSL scale is presented that shows reliability and validity across educational levels (elementary, middle and high school) based on 4,266 student survey responses. Concurrent and discriminative validity is demonstrated using measures of academic ac…
How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities
Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process: the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotion stage. Using the authors' recent survey of 4078 employers covering a nationally representative sample of jobs, four types of exclusionary barriers are investigated: “segregated networks” at the candidate stage, “information bias” and “statistical discrimination” at …
The Concept and Measurement of the Quality of School Life
The Quality of School Life (QSL) is defined by three dimensions of student reactions: (1) satisfaction with school in general, (2) commitment to school work, and (3) attitudes toward teachers. A 27-item QSL scale is presented that shows reliability and validity across educational levels (elementary, middle and high school) based on 4,266 student survey responses. Concurrent and discriminative validity is demonstrated using measures of academic ac…
Exploring the Causes of Early Dropout among Race-Ethnic and Gender Groups
This study uses nationally representative high school student data to show raceethnicity and gender differences in reasons for early school dropout and plans for dropouts to resume their education. Factor analyses show that separate reasons for dropping out include school-related, family-related, and job-related causes, as well as influences from peers and residential mobility. White dropouts cited alienation from school more often than either Af…
Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation
A few diverse studies show that racial segregation tends to be perpetuated over stages of the life cycle and across institutional settings (Braddock, 1980; Braddock and McPartland, 1982; Crain, 1970; McPartland and Crain, 1980; McPartland and Braddock, 1981; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1967: App. C5). Blacks who grow up in a largely segregated environment are more likely to lead their adult lives in segregated situations. And, at any given a…
Using Community Adults as Advocates or Mentors for At-Risk Middle School Students
The effects on selected student outcomes are evaluated after two years of operation of Project RAISE, a multifaceted approach featuring outside adults as school-based advocates and one-on-one mentors for at-risk students at seven middle schools. Positive effects are found on improving student attendance and report card grades in English, but not on promotion rates or standardized test scores. The effects, though sizable, were not sufficient to ne…
Applicant Race and Job Placement Decisions
Net of controls for educational credentials, recommendations, age, high school quality, employment sector, firm size and region, white personnel officers tend to assign black male high school graduates to lower paying positions than those assigned to white male high school graduates in the USA. Similar patterns are observed for while female college graduates. The effect of job candidates' race on employers' job placement decisions is examined, us…
Desegregation as National Policy
To appropriately evaluate the effects of the national policy of desegregation on racial attitudes, data from a national probability sample of 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds were analyzed. From this analysis we conclude that for both whites and blacks desegregation is related positively to racial tolerance even for those areas and age-race groups in which the least tolerance is exhibited. The possibility of ceiling effects and social desirability confo…
Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity
James M. McPartland, Barbara Schneider, Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Common Core Curriculum, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 66-81
Control and Differentiation in the Structure of American Education
The report by Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore on public and private schools is criticizedfor failing to consider alternative explanations of school effectiveness and for drawing narrow policy implications. We use student body composition to account for public and private school effectiveness as an alternative to the explanation of external constraints on school authorities implied by Public and Private Schools. We also emphasize the need to consider …
Open Schools and Achievement
Several extended tests of the relationship between the of a school's instructional program and student achievement fail to show sizeable or consistent positive or negative effects in a survey of 6,225 students from 39 elementary and secondary schools. Conventional analyses of the immediate impact of openness on student achievement, net offamily background, show that openness accounts for less than two percent of the variance in test scores and th…
Organizing Schools for Improvement
Social Science Evidence and Affirmative Action Policies
The Concept and Measurement of the Quality of School Life
The Quality of School Life (QSL) is defined by three dimensions of student reactions: (1) satisfaction with school in general, (2) commitment to school work, and (3) attitudes toward teachers. A 27-item QSL scale is presented that shows reliability and validity across educational levels (elementary, middle and high school) based on 4,266 student survey responses. Concurrent and discriminative validity is demonstrated using measures of academic ac…
Open Schools and Achievement
Several extended tests of the relationship between the of a school's instructional program and student achievement fail to show sizeable or consistent positive or negative effects in a survey of 6,225 students from 39 elementary and secondary schools. Conventional analyses of the immediate impact of openness on student achievement, net offamily background, show that openness accounts for less than two percent of the variance in test scores and th…
Violence in Schools
Violence in Schools
Desegregation as National Policy
To appropriately evaluate the effects of the national policy of desegregation on racial attitudes, data from a national probability sample of 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds were analyzed. From this analysis we conclude that for both whites and blacks desegregation is related positively to racial tolerance even for those areas and age-race groups in which the least tolerance is exhibited. The possibility of ceiling effects and social desirability confo…
Control and Differentiation in the Structure of American Education
The report by Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore on public and private schools is criticizedfor failing to consider alternative explanations of school effectiveness and for drawing narrow policy implications. We use student body composition to account for public and private school effectiveness as an alternative to the explanation of external constraints on school authorities implied by Public and Private Schools. We also emphasize the need to consider …
Applicant Race and Job Placement Decisions
Net of controls for educational credentials, recommendations, age, high school quality, employment sector, firm size and region, white personnel officers tend to assign black male high school graduates to lower paying positions than those assigned to white male high school graduates in the USA. Similar patterns are observed for while female college graduates. The effect of job candidates' race on employers' job placement decisions is examined, us…
Social Science Evidence and Affirmative Action Policies
How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities
Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process: the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotion stage. Using the authors' recent survey of 4078 employers covering a nationally representative sample of jobs, four types of exclusionary barriers are investigated: “segregated networks” at the candidate stage, “information bias” and “statistical discrimination” at …
Social-Psychological Processes That Perpetuate Racial Segregation
A few diverse studies show that racial segregation tends to be perpetuated over stages of the life cycle and across institutional settings (Braddock, 1980; Braddock and McPartland, 1982; Crain, 1970; McPartland and Crain, 1980; McPartland and Braddock, 1981; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1967: App. C5). Blacks who grow up in a largely segregated environment are more likely to lead their adult lives in segregated situations. And, at any given a…
Using Community Adults as Advocates or Mentors for At-Risk Middle School Students
The effects on selected student outcomes are evaluated after two years of operation of Project RAISE, a multifaceted approach featuring outside adults as school-based advocates and one-on-one mentors for at-risk students at seven middle schools. Positive effects are found on improving student attendance and report card grades in English, but not on promotion rates or standardized test scores. The effects, though sizable, were not sufficient to ne…
An American Imperative
Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity
James M. McPartland, Barbara Schneider, Opportunities to Learn and Student Diversity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Common Core Curriculum, Sociology of Education, Vol. 69, Extra Issue: Special Issue on Sociology and Educational Policy: Bringing Scholarship and Practice Together (1996), pp. 66-81
Exploring the Causes of Early Dropout among Race-Ethnic and Gender Groups
This study uses nationally representative high school student data to show raceethnicity and gender differences in reasons for early school dropout and plans for dropouts to resume their education. Factor analyses show that separate reasons for dropping out include school-related, family-related, and job-related causes, as well as influences from peers and residential mobility. White dropouts cited alienation from school more often than either Af…
Organizing Schools for Improvement
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · School Choice and Performance (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Academic achievement (3 works)