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Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America

There is considerable variance in the productivity of teachers, yet educators have been unable to identify observable characteristics related to teacher effectiveness.

All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods

James M.

Blurring the Color Line

Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge

The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue. Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protecti

Association between Income and the Hippocampus

Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of environmental stimuli, the quality of parenting behaviors, and the amount and type of stress experienced by a child affects br

Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges

This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers.

The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised

I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978.

Poverty and Program Participation among Immigrant Children

Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower educational achievement and behavioral problems to lower earnings in t

Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces

Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty

Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume.