A Piece of the Educational Pie

Reflections and New Evidence on Black and Immigrant Schooling Since 1880

Bibliographic Data

ID2544754
AuthorsJoel Perlmann (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume60
Issue1
Pages54
Publication date1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2112619
OpenAlexW2049582416
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

This paper uses individual-level data to present new evidence on the impact of discrimination, class, family structure, and culture on black schooling. That evidence is used to reconsider several of the important conclusions of Lieberson's (1980) analysis of schooling. The paper confirms Lieberson's conclusions about the relative importance of economic well-being and the unimportance of family structure. When family background is controlled, Lieberson's conclusions concerning grade attainment in the early years of the century are confirmed. However, the use of the early attainment data to study the importance of cultural factors is complicated by an understanding of child labor opportunities. Measures of school performance less affected by that complication are offered. Finally, the appendix questions the evidence for Lieberson's contention that changes in the relative position of blacks were especially great in the 1925-35 birth cohort

Cohort · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Immigration · Political science · Position (finance) · Social class · Sociology · Gender Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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