Adam Gamoran
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American sociologist
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- Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adam Gamoran is an American sociologist. Early life and education He obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Chicago in 1984. Career Until 2013 he had held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and chaired the Department of Sociology. He was also the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. A particular focus of his research has been school structure, educational inequality, and school reform.
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Published Works
- Opening Dialogue: Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Learning in the English Classroom (Language and Literacy Series) (1996) (851)
- Discussion-Based Approaches to Developing Understanding: Classroom Instruction and Student Performance in Middle and High School English (2003) (753)
- Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality? (1989) (705)
- Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse (2003) (586)
- Authentic Pedagogy and Student Performance (1996) (580)
- The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities. (1987) (576)
- Instructional Discourse, Student Engagement, and Literature Achievement. (1991) (526)
- Class Size and Student Achievement (2001) (392)
- The Effects of Stratification in Secondary Schools: Synthesis of Survey and Ethnographic Research (1987) (355)
- Upgrading High School Mathematics Instruction: Improving Learning Opportunities for Low-Achieving, Low-Income Youth (1997) (338)
- American Schooling and Educational Inequality: A Forecast for the 21st Century. (2001) (336)
- The variable effects of high school tracking. (1992) (333)
- An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping (1995) (283)
- Student Achievement in Public Magnet, Public Comprehensive, and Private City High Schools (1996) (281)
- Algebra for Everyone? Benefits of College-Preparatory Mathematics for Students With Diverse Abilities in Early Secondary School (2000) (248)
- Instructional and Institutional Effects of Ability Grouping. (1986) (232)
- Equality of Educational Opportunity A 40 Year Retrospective (2007) (199)
- Does class size matter? (2001) (184)
- More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education (2009) (163)
- Transforming teaching in math and science : how schools and districts can support change (2003) (154)
- Methodological advances in cross-national surveys of educational achievement (2002) (154)
- The Production of Achievement Inequality in High School English (2002) (151)
- Differentiation and Opportunity in Restructured Schools (1998) (140)
- Race, Instruction, and Learning. (1986) (133)
- Student Engagement: When Recitation Becomes Conversation. (1990) (132)
- Coupling and Control in Educational Organizations. (1986) (130)
- Tracking and Inequality: New Directions for Research and Practice (2009) (127)
- Is Ability Grouping Equitable (1992) (118)
- Access to Excellence: Assignment to Honors English Classes in the Transition From Middle to High School (1992) (116)
- Curriculum Standardization and equality of opportunity in Scottish secondary education : 1984-90 (1996) (110)
- Effects of Class Size and Instruction on Kindergarten Achievement (2006) (101)
- The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning Changing Theoretical Perspectives (2006) (97)
- Measuring Curriculum Differentiation (1989) (97)
- Background and Instructional Effects on Achievement in Eighth-Grade English and Social Studies (1991) (91)
- Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes? (1993) (89)
- The Organizational Context of Teaching and Learning (2000) (83)
- Threat in Context (2014) (70)
- The Relationship Between Professional Development and Professional Community in American Schools (2003) (69)
- Stratification in Academic Secondary Programs and Educational Inequality in Israel and the United States (2000) (64)
- Effects of Two Scientific Inquiry Professional Development Interventions on Teaching Practice (2013) (60)
- Differences between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Families in Social Capital and Child Development: First-Year Findings from an Experimental Study. (2012) (56)
- Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for "No Child Left Behind" (2008) (54)
- Towards an Ecology of Learning: The Case of Classroom Discourse and Its Effects on Writing in High School English and Social Studies. Report Series 2.34. (1998) (54)
- A Randomized Trial of Teacher Development in Elementary Science: First-Year Achievement Effects (2008) (53)
- Synthesis of Research / Is Ability Grouping Equitable? (2007) (52)
- Instructional Discourse and Student Engagement. (1989) (48)
- Scottish higher education, 1987–2001: expansion through diversion (2011) (47)
- Designing Instruction and Grouping Students to Enhance the Learning of All: New Hope or False Promise? (2011) (45)
- Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context (2016) (44)
- Organization, Instruction, and the Effects of Ability Grouping: Comment on Slavin’s “Best-Evidence Synthesis” (1987) (44)
- Tracking, instruction and achievement (1994) (43)
- Upgrading the High School Math Curriculum: Math Course-Taking Patterns in Seven High Schools in California and New York (1996) (43)
- Diversification and Inequality in Higher Education: A Comparison of Israel and the United States (2008) (39)
- RANK, PERFORMANCE, AND MOBILITY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GROUPING (1989) (37)
- The Consequences of Principal and Teacher Turnover for School Social Resources (2016) (36)
- On the Ecology of Classroom Instruction (2001) (35)
- Do Magnet Schools Boost Achievement (1996) (35)
- High School English: A National Portrait (2002) (34)
- Curriculum Change as a Reform Strategy: Lessons from the United States and Scotland (1997) (32)
- CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY (2003) (26)
- Reducing children's behavior problems through social capital: A causal assessment. (2017) (25)
- Schooling and Achievement: Additive versus Interactive Models (1991) (23)
- A Study of Instruction as Discourse. (1988) (22)
- The Quality of Vocational Education. Background Papers from the 1994 National Assessment of Vocational Education. (1998) (21)
- The Teachers Report: A Portrait of Teachers in Jewish Schools (1998) (20)
- Whither the virtuous cycle? Past and future trends in black-white inequality in educational attainment. (2012) (19)
- Standards, Inequality & Ability Grouping in Schools (2002) (19)
- Tracking and inequality (2009) (18)
- Teacher Empowerment: A Policy in Search of Theory and Evidence. Final Deliverable. (1994) (18)
- The Class Size Controversy (2001) (18)
- Race and Track Assignment: A Reconsideration with Course-Based Indicators of Track Locations. (1993) (18)
- Does Racial Isolation in School Lead to Long-Term Disadvantages? Labor Market Consequences of High School Racial Composition1 (2016) (17)
- Civil Religion in American Schools (1990) (17)
- Effects of Instructional Differences among Ability Groups on Student Achievment in Middle-School Science and Mathematics. (1993) (17)
- Fields of study: Horizontal or vertical differentiation within higher education sectors? (2018) (16)
- Persisting social class inequality in US education (2009) (15)
- Evidence-Based Policy in the Real World: A Cautionary View (2018) (13)
- Effects of Nonmaternal Child Care on Inequality in Cognitive Skills. Discussion Papers. (1999) (13)
- BACKGROUND AND TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN JEWISH SCHOOLS: CURRENT STATUS AND LEVERS FOR CHANGE (1997) (12)
- School Effects in Comparative Perspective: New Evidence from a Threshold Model (2006) (11)
- chapter 14 Evidence and Decision Making in Education Systems (2007) (10)
- Gamoran Comment on Downey and Condron (2016) (9)
- Inequality Is the Problem: Prioritizing Research on Reducing Inequality. Annual Report. (2013) (9)
- School accountability, american style: dilemmas of high-stakes testing (2007) (9)
- Upgrading High School Mathematics: A Look at Three Transition Courses (1997) (8)
- Educational inequality in the United States: can we reverse the tide? (2017) (8)
- Tracking Students for Instruction (1995) (8)
- Does obesity lead to poor school performance ? Estimates from propensity score matching (2011) (7)
- Religious Participation as Cultural Capital Development: Sector Differences in Chicago’s Jewish Schools (2005) (6)
- Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap (2017) (6)
- Effects of a Multi-Family Intervention on Social Capital and Child Outcomes. (2011) (6)
- Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures.Peter McLaren (1987) (6)
- Will latest U.S. law lead to successful schools in STEM? (2016) (6)
- Sociology’s Role in Responding to Inequality: Introduction to the Special Collection (2021) (5)
- Reforming the Loosely Coupled System: Implications for Jewish Schools (2008) (5)
- Improving Opportunities for Disadvantaged Students: Changes in S4 Examination Results, 1984-1990. CES Briefing No. 6. (1996) (5)
- Towards Building A Profession: Characteristics Of Contemporary Educators In American Jewish Schools (1999) (4)
- The Development and Sustainability of School-Based Parent Networks in Low-Income Latinx Communities: A Mixed-Methods Investigation (2020) (3)
- Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships (2022) (3)
- The Leaders Report: A Portrait of Education Leaders in Jewish Schools (1999) (3)
- Parent Involvement and Child Development: First-Year Results from a School-Randomized Trial in Latino Communities. (2010) (3)
- Instruction and the Effects of Schooling. (1987) (3)
- The Effect of Social Capital on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment in Two Southwestern Cities (2009) (3)
- Evidence and Decision Making in Education Systems (2007) (3)
- An intervention approach to building social capital: effects on grade retention (2015) (3)
- Social Capital and Student Achievement: An Intervention-Based Test of Theory (2021) (3)
- Does Exposure to Whites Help Blacks in the Long Run? Labor-Market Consequences of High School Racial Composition (2005) (3)
- The Variable Effects of Tracking: Inequality and Productivity in American High Schools. (1990) (3)
- Religious participation and family values among American Jewish youth (1992) (3)
- GENDER DIFFERENCES AMONG TEACHERS IN JEWISH SCHOOLS: Findings from Three Communities (1998) (3)
- Instructional Organization and Educational Equity. (1989) (3)
- Dissertation: Dynamics of Inequality in a Differentiated Post-Secondary System: Intragenerational, Intergenerational, and Social Psychological Perspectives (2011) (2)
- International comparative assessment: how far have we really come? (2004) (2)
- Egalitarian versus Elitist Use of Ability Grouping. (1984) (2)
- QUANTITY OF SCHOOLING AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY: FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN IN THE USA (2003) (2)
- Evidence-Based School Interventions to Reduce Achievement Inequality (2012) (2)
- The Institutionalization of Educational Stratification. (1984) (2)
- Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes? Final Deliverable. (1992) (2)
- Evidence lights the way (2019) (1)
- Book Review:Getting Started: Transition to Adulthood in Great Britain. Alan C. Kerckhoff (1992) (1)
- Academic Achievement in American Cities: Comparison of Public Comprehensive, Public Magnet, Catholic, and Non-Religious Private High Schools (1994) (1)
- CHAPTER SEVEN United States: Changes in Higher Education and Social Stratification (2007) (1)
- Toward the Next Generation of U.S. National Longitudinal Surveys (2016) (1)
- Educational Stratification and Individual Careers (2018) (1)
- Teacher Empowerment: Can It Help Teaching and Learning? Final Deliverable to OERI. (1994) (1)
- The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course (2019) (1)
- “Feeling Jewish” and “Knowing Jewish”: The Cognitive Dimension of Informal Education (2007) (1)
- Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: A Research Annual, Vol. 8: Selected Methodological Issues. (1990) (0)
- The Rise of Privatization in Tertiary Education, and Its Implications for Teaching and Research in Universities (2014) (0)
- [slide 1] Sustaining Partnership-Driven Change: Organizational Barriers and Supports (2008) (0)
- A RECONSIDERATION WITH COURSE-BASED INDICATORS OF TRACK LOCATIONS Final Deliverable to OERI (2012) (0)
- School Capacity and Staff Turnover: Teachers, Principals, and the Social Prospects for Instructional Improvement (2010) (0)
- Title : Effects of a Multi-Family Intervention on Social Capital and Child Outcomes (2010) (0)
- Volume Information (1990) (0)
- Sociology 875 - Fall 2006 Interdisciplinary Training Seminar in Education Sciences From Disciplinary Knowledge to Applied Research in Education: Producing Evidence that Matters (2006) (0)
- What Are They "Thinking"?. (2003) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT WE TEACH ABOUT RACE AND GENDER: REPRESENTATION IN IMAGES AND TEXT OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS (2021) (0)
- Working Paper No . 2009-6 August 2009 Tracking and Inequality : New Directions for Research and Practice (2009) (0)
- Volume Information (1987) (0)
- Elements of Children's Social Functioning (2005) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- USING MULTILEVEL GROWTH MODELS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE URBAN SYSTEMIC INITIATIVES IN TEXAS , 1994-2000 (2002) (0)
- In high school math, more instructional time helps, but the tracking dilemma remains (2021) (0)
- ***************************************v******************************* INSTRUCTIONAL ORGANIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY (2007) (0)
- Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. Jeannie Oakes (1986) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2009) (0)
- Striving Towards the Big Questions (2016) (0)
- Getting the Most Out of Mixed-Methods Research Designs: Comment on the Mixed Methods Working Group Essay (2019) (0)
- Early Contacts with Child Welfare Agencies Or (2005) (0)
- Inequality in Intergenerational Closure As a Barrier to Social Capital Formation (2014) (0)
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