Schools, Inequality, and Social Mobility

Name: Schools, Inequality, and Social Mobility
Start: 2024-11-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-16T23:59:59-05:00
Location: The Sky Suite at The Keller Center

The conference will bring together leading scholars to examine the relationship between schooling, inequality, and mobility.

Conference | One-Time Event

November 15 – 16, 2024

Location The Sky Suite at The Keller Center, Harris School of Public Policy, 1307 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637

Organizers Douglas Downey, Steve Raudenbush, Geoffrey Wodtke

Research Areas Education

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.