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100 1 $aReam, Robert Ketner,$d1966-
245 10 $aUprooting children :$bmobility, social capital, and Mexican American underachievement /$cRobert Ketner Ream.
260 $aNew York :$bLFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,$c2005.
300 $axii, 252 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe new Americans
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index.
505 0 $aChanging Demographics in the United States -- Nature and Extent of the Achievement Gap -- Explaining Mexican American Underachievement -- Where Traditional Explanations Fall Short -- Society's Interest in Eliminating the Achievement Gap -- The Current Study -- The Achievement Gap, Social Capital and Mobility: An Overview -- Theories Employed to Investigate the Achievement Gap -- Where Traditional Explanations Fall Short -- Social Capital -- Mobility -- Mixed-Methods Research Design -- The Current Study -- Research Design, Data Collection and Interpretation -- Test-Score Performance and Rates of Mobility by Socioeconomic and Nativity Status -- The Twelfth Grade Test Score Gap -- The Incidence of Mobility -- The Causes of Student Mobility -- Group-Level Differences in the Availability of Social Capital by Socioeconomic and Nativity Status -- Family Social Capital -- Family Social Capital by SES and Immigrant Status -- Peer Social Capital -- Peer Social Capital by SES and Immigrant Status -- Community Social Capital -- Community Social Capital by SES and Immigrant Status -- School Social Capital -- School Social Capital by SES and Immigrant Status -- Informal Social Networks and the Mobility/Social Capital Dynamic -- The Dynamic Within Families -- The Dynamic Among Peers -- Formal Social Networks: The Mobility/Social Capital Dynamic and the "Downside" of Social Capital -- The Dynamic Within the Community -- The School Social Capital Dynamic -- NELS:88 Variables Considered in the Development of Composite and Latent Measures of Social Capital -- Variable Descriptions, Means, Standard Deviations and Mean Comparisons in the Sample -- Interview Protocols -- Logistical Information.
650 0 $aStudent mobility$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAcademic achievement$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial capital (Sociology)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMexican American students.
650 0 $aMinority students$zUnited States.
830 0 $aNew Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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