Curricular policy as a collective effects problem: A distributional approach

Social Science Research

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 627-641

  Penner, Andrew M ^a   Domina, Thurston ^a   Penner, Emily K ^b   Conley, AnneMarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Inequality; Policy; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CURRICULUM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CURRICULUM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; POLICY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84941270054     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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