Titre du document / Document title
The winner-take-all high school: Organizational adaptations to educational stratification = Adaptations organisationnelles à la stratification éducative
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
ATTEWELL Paul (1) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Graduate Center, City University of New York, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
Across the United States, families seek schools with reputations for academic excellence for their children, assuming that such schools improve a talented child's prospects for college admission. This article shows that students from star public high schools experience a disadvantage in entering elite colleges that stems from the attention played to class rank. In response, some high schools have developed winner-take-all characteristics, enhancing the success of their top students at the expense of other students. Students below the top of their class do less well than would be expected in terms of grades and advanced placement courses. They also take fewer advanced math and science subjects, given their high academic skills, compared to equivalent students in less prestigious schools. These patterns are linked to a system of educational stratification that links colleges and high schools through several types of assessment games
Revue / Journal Title
Sociology of education
ISSN
0038-0407
CODEN SCYEB7
Source / Source
2001, vol. 74, n
o4, pp. 267-295 (2 p.1/4)
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, ETATS-UNIS
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Localisation / Location
INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 24804, 35400009993669.0010
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