Stephen Kotok
Biographic Data
| ID | 5740585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Kotok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotok |
| SIGNATURE | KOTOK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7257-2428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race at the Top
Purpose: Students benefit from racially diverse educators, but racial diversity in student composition within U.S. schools has not translated into equal levels of principal diversity, as the profession remains overwhelmingly White. Superintendents play a critical role as district leaders in creating a more racially diverse teacher and principal pipeline. Research Approach: We use district-, school-, and year-fixed-effect models on a 16-year panel…
New York City Catholic Schools Operating in the Public Space in a Post- Makin World
Given recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, specifically Carson v. Makin, which permit public funding for religious schools, we examine how Catholic diocese and school leaders interpret these legal shifts for Catholic education. We utilize the Catholic education sector in New York City as a case study to examine how Catholic school leaders interpret local, state, and national policy shifts in funding for Catholic education. Specifically, we examin…
Childhood and education in the United States and Russia
Just a few decades ago, the U.S. had countless Russia experts in academia and at the State Department. After all, the Soviet Union was the chief adversary of the U.S., but times changed after Chris
A Demographic Paradox
Following the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans public schools underwent a variety of changes including a mass influx of charter schools as well as a demographic shift in the racial composition of the district. Using school-level data from the Louisiana Department of Education, this study examines the extent that New Orleans public schools are more or less racially integrated, racially segregated, and concentrated by poverty almost a deca…
School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Poverty Concentration
This article examines how student movements between traditional public schools (TPSs) and charters—both brick and mortar and cyber—may be associated with both racial isolation and poverty concentration. Using student-level data from the universe of Pennsylvania public schools, this study builds upon previous research by specifically examining student transfers into charter schools, disaggregating findings by geography. We find that, on average, t…
School Climate and Dropping Out of School in the Era of Accountability
Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09)—a large nationally representative sample of US high school students—we employed multilevel structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between school characteristics and the likelihood that a student will drop out of high school. We used a multifaceted framework on school climate to assess the degree to which school attachment, disciplinary order, disciplinary…
Universal patterns or the tale of two systems? Mathematics achievement and educational expectations in post-socialist Europe
Although communist ideology claimed to destroy former class stratification based on labor market capitalist relationships, de facto during socialism one social class hierarchy was substituted for another that was equally unequal. The economic transition during the 1990s increased stratification by wealth, which affected educational inequality. This study examines the relationships among parental education, gender, educational expectations, and ma…
Demography and Educational Politics in the Suburban Marketplace
The demography of public school enrollment continues to change dramatically, with students of color comprising an increasing proportion of the whole. As such, suburbia, with both White and non-White students, is a place in which integration is more possible in the beginning of the 21st century. Due to the intertwined nature of how these factors affect educational politics in suburban districts, we draw on Hirschman's exit-voice-loyalty framework …
School Climate and Dropping Out of School in the Era of Accountability
Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09)—a large nationally representative sample of US high school students—we employed multilevel structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between school characteristics and the likelihood that a student will drop out of high school. We used a multifaceted framework on school climate to assess the degree to which school attachment, disciplinary order, disciplinary…
Universal patterns or the tale of two systems? Mathematics achievement and educational expectations in post-socialist Europe
Although communist ideology claimed to destroy former class stratification based on labor market capitalist relationships, de facto during socialism one social class hierarchy was substituted for another that was equally unequal. The economic transition during the 1990s increased stratification by wealth, which affected educational inequality. This study examines the relationships among parental education, gender, educational expectations, and ma…
Demography and Educational Politics in the Suburban Marketplace
The demography of public school enrollment continues to change dramatically, with students of color comprising an increasing proportion of the whole. As such, suburbia, with both White and non-White students, is a place in which integration is more possible in the beginning of the 21st century. Due to the intertwined nature of how these factors affect educational politics in suburban districts, we draw on Hirschman's exit-voice-loyalty framework …
Universal patterns or the tale of two systems? Mathematics achievement and educational expectations in post-socialist Europe
Although communist ideology claimed to destroy former class stratification based on labor market capitalist relationships, de facto during socialism one social class hierarchy was substituted for another that was equally unequal. The economic transition during the 1990s increased stratification by wealth, which affected educational inequality. This study examines the relationships among parental education, gender, educational expectations, and ma…
Demography and Educational Politics in the Suburban Marketplace
The demography of public school enrollment continues to change dramatically, with students of color comprising an increasing proportion of the whole. As such, suburbia, with both White and non-White students, is a place in which integration is more possible in the beginning of the 21st century. Due to the intertwined nature of how these factors affect educational politics in suburban districts, we draw on Hirschman's exit-voice-loyalty framework …
School Climate and Dropping Out of School in the Era of Accountability
Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09)—a large nationally representative sample of US high school students—we employed multilevel structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between school characteristics and the likelihood that a student will drop out of high school. We used a multifaceted framework on school climate to assess the degree to which school attachment, disciplinary order, disciplinary…
School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Poverty Concentration
This article examines how student movements between traditional public schools (TPSs) and charters—both brick and mortar and cyber—may be associated with both racial isolation and poverty concentration. Using student-level data from the universe of Pennsylvania public schools, this study builds upon previous research by specifically examining student transfers into charter schools, disaggregating findings by geography. We find that, on average, t…
A Demographic Paradox
Following the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans public schools underwent a variety of changes including a mass influx of charter schools as well as a demographic shift in the racial composition of the district. Using school-level data from the Louisiana Department of Education, this study examines the extent that New Orleans public schools are more or less racially integrated, racially segregated, and concentrated by poverty almost a deca…
Childhood and education in the United States and Russia
Just a few decades ago, the U.S. had countless Russia experts in academia and at the State Department. After all, the Soviet Union was the chief adversary of the U.S., but times changed after Chris
New York City Catholic Schools Operating in the Public Space in a Post- Makin World
Given recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, specifically Carson v. Makin, which permit public funding for religious schools, we examine how Catholic diocese and school leaders interpret these legal shifts for Catholic education. We utilize the Catholic education sector in New York City as a case study to examine how Catholic school leaders interpret local, state, and national policy shifts in funding for Catholic education. Specifically, we examin…
Race at the Top
Purpose: Students benefit from racially diverse educators, but racial diversity in student composition within U.S. schools has not translated into equal levels of principal diversity, as the profession remains overwhelmingly White. Superintendents play a critical role as district leaders in creating a more racially diverse teacher and principal pipeline. Research Approach: We use district-, school-, and year-fixed-effect models on a 16-year panel…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Racial composition (3 works) · Charter (2 works)