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Education Quotes by Karl Alexander

9 Education quotes by Karl Alexander

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Karl Alexander’s nine statements on learning explore how schooling intersects with cultural heritage. Though brief, each comment underscores the importance of preserving identity through education. It provides a succinct look at his perspective on the cultural dimensions of schooling.

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“By contrast, lower-SES children labor under the burden of cumulative disadvantage imposed by their location in the SES hierarchy. Their parents want…

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“Other resources located within the family also weigh on children's development. In figure 7.1, they are represented by parents' psychological support for…

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“It is important that this first assessment of parent expectations, having been elicited before the first report card in first grade, is…

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“optimism absent feedback from school suggests world view differences across social lines in the nature of Pierre Bourdieu's habitus (1990; Swartz 1977).…

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“Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow…

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“Family life during the early elementary years is our point of departure. Lower socioeconomic status (SES) and disadvantaged minority youth begin school…

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“It is noteworthy that socioceconomics—that is, poor neighborhoods and poor schools—are prominent in both settings. Long ago, the Coleman report (1966) concluded…

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“only 1 of every 3 young black male high school dropouts was able to obtain any type of employment during the average…

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“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a…

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“From a stratification perspective, we want to understand both immobility and mobility. For immobility, the issue is how status is inherited across generations. Not…

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“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a high school…

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“THIS BOOK is about the reproduction of social advantage and disadvantage across generations in the experience of typical Baltimore youth, anchored in their childhood…

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“Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both lower and…

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“Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are numerous. The…

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“those African Americans who did manage to penetrate the skilled trades mostly were consigned to low-wage work. According to Social Security Administration data, the…

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“For almost twenty-five years, we tracked the life progress of 790 children who began first grade in the fall of 1982 in twenty Baltimore…

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“It is important that this first assessment of parent expectations, having been elicited before the first report card in first grade, is properly considered…

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“Parenthood, it turns out, is common to all the negative transition sequences (that is, those that depress socioeconomic prospects) and delayed parenthood is common…

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“This volume aims to identify the resources and personal qualities that help disadvantaged youth, but also the barriers they face. It is a book…

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“The exclusion of blacks from high-skill, high-wage employment is rooted in Jim Crow and resistance to integration and is sustained through tradition, word-of-mouth network…

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“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

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“By contrast, lower-SES children labor under the burden of cumulative disadvantage imposed by their location in the SES hierarchy. Their parents want them to…

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“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

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“Other resources located within the family also weigh on children's development. In figure 7.1, they are represented by parents' psychological support for their children's…

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