Schools, Inequality, and Social Mobility
The conference on Schools, Inequality, and Social Mobility aims to bring together leading scholars to examine the relationship between schooling and social inequality. Over two days, we will engage in discussions to explore whether educational institutions serve as equalizers, amplifiers, or refractors of social and economic disparities. Topics addressed by the speakers include the role of schooling in compressing, amplifying, or refracting inequalities in achievement test scores versus long-term outcomes; the role of primary versus secondary versus post-secondary education in reducing or exacerbating inequalities; the mechanisms through which schools exacerbate inequalities; inequalities in access to schools of different quality; and so on.
Participation is by invitation only.
Schedule
Friday, November 15th
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leader(s) |
|
8:00 a.m. |
8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast | |
| Session I | Chair: Douglas Downey | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | 9:15 a.m. |
Separate and Unequal Options: Neighborhood Educational Access in the Era of School Choice |
Peter Rich |
| 9:20 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. |
Transit Trade-offs: Public Transportation Difficulty, Schedule Variation, and School Preferences |
Julia Burdick-Will |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. |
An Education Equity-Oriented Approach to Causal Decomposition Analysis |
Guanglei Hong |
| 11:05 a.m. | 11:50 a.m. |
Equity-Centered School Reorganization: A Framework for Addressing Disproportionality in Closures |
Francis Pearman |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session II | Chair: Steve Raudenbush | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. |
The Labor Market Returns to “Some” College: Ambiguous Credentials and Inequality in Early Careers |
Christina Ciocca Eller |
| 1:50 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. |
“Colleges That Obviously Don’t Have What You Need”: Risk, Social Mobility, and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students |
Stefanie Deluca |
| 2:35 p.m. | 2:45 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 2:45 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. |
What Makes Systemic Discrimination “Systemic?” Exposing the Amplifiers of Inequity |
David McMillon |
| 3:35 p.m. | 4:20 p.m. |
Towards a New Framework for Thinking about School Effects |
Jen Jennings |
Saturday, November 16th
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Session Leader(s) |
| 8:00 a.m. | 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| Session I | Chair: Geoffrey Wodtke | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | 9:15 a.m. |
Heterogeneous Effects of College on Reducing Poverty |
Jennie Brand |
| 9:20 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. |
Wealth Mobility by Educational Attainment in the Student Debt Cohort |
Jordan Conwell |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. |
Schools and Socioeconomic Inequality in Achievement: Revisiting the “School Equalization” Hypothesis in the United States |
Giampiero Passaretta |
| 11:05 a.m. | 11:50 a.m. |
No Effect of Ability Grouping on the Distribution of Kindergarten Reading Skills: A New Analysis of Two National Cohorts |
Paul von Hippel & Anna Canedo |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Session II | Chair: Geoffrey Wodtke | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. |
Federal Attendance Metrics in the Lonely School: A Case Study of Chronic Absenteeism at Suburban Franklin High |
Simone Ispa-Landa |
| 1:50 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | The Inequality Research We Need Today | Adam Gamoran |
Location
- The venue is located at the Harris School of Public Policy, Sky Suite (Fourth Floor), 1307 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637.
Logistics
- The Sky Suite at the Harris School of Public Policy will be equipped with a screen, computer, and clicker.
- Wi-Fi is available throughout campus using your university credentials on the “eduroam” network or via the guest network; guest log-in details will be provided on-site.