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Cross-National Research: How Contexts Mediate Educational Stratification

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Stratification And The Formation Of Expectations In Highly Differentiated Educational Systems, Claudia Buchmann, Hyunjoon Park Dec 2008

Stratification And The Formation Of Expectations In Highly Differentiated Educational Systems, Claudia Buchmann, Hyunjoon Park

Hyunjoon Park

Highly differentiated educational systems constitute a common organizational form of schooling in which youth are sorted into secondary schools that stress either vocational or academic training and between which movement is rare. With standardized data from five countries, we illuminate two important stratification processes in these systems: (1) social origins strongly influence students’ placement into different types of schools with high SES students most likely to attend academically oriented schools that provide a direct pathway to the university. (2) The types of schools students attend largely determine their educational and occupational expectations and impart a strong dose of realism in …


Public Policy And The Effect Of Sibship Size On Educational Achievement: A Comparative Study Of 20 Countries, Hyunjoon Park Dec 2007

Public Policy And The Effect Of Sibship Size On Educational Achievement: A Comparative Study Of 20 Countries, Hyunjoon Park

Hyunjoon Park

Using international data on educational achievement among 15-year-olds in 20 OECD countries, I compare the effect of sibship size on reading literacy and link the cross-national variation in the sibship-size effect to differences in national contexts of public policies for families and children. Comparisons highlight significant cross-national variation in the level of public policies, even among countries ordinarily thought to belong to the same welfare regime. Deviating from previous literature that focused on overall differences across welfare regimes, I explore the way in which specific public policy variables, rather than categorical regimes, mediate the relationship between sibship size and educational …


The Varied Educational Effects Of Parent-Child Communication: A Comparative Study Of Fourteen Countries, Hyunjoon Park Dec 2007

The Varied Educational Effects Of Parent-Child Communication: A Comparative Study Of Fourteen Countries, Hyunjoon Park

Hyunjoon Park

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