Role of School Quality and Neighborhood Disadvantage in Educational Attainment: Do They Vary by Race?

IF 1.2 Q3 SOCIAL WORK
Children & Schools Pub Date : 2023-08-18 eCollection Date: 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1093/cs/cdad016
Young Sun Joo, Youngmi Kim
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Schools and neighborhoods are adolescents' primary environments, and each has a significant influence on their academic success. The majority of studies on educational attainment have examined the impact of a single context-either the school or the neighborhood-suggesting mixed findings on school and neighborhood effects as well as potential disparities across racial groups. To address this gap, the present study examined the roles of school quality and neighborhood disadvantage on educational attainment for White and Black adolescents. This study used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data collected from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents, merging multiple data sources including in-home surveys, school administrator surveys, student-level educational records, and contextual data. Educational attainment was measured using college enrollment and graduation status. School quality was a significant predictor of college enrollment and graduation for both White and Black adolescents. Neighborhood disadvantage is significantly associated with college enrollment for both racial groups; however, college graduation is significant only for White adolescents. These findings suggest that improving school quality is particularly important for educational attainment regardless of racial background. The article concludes with a discussion on the differential roles of school quality and neighborhood disadvantage in relation to White and Black adolescents.

学校质量和邻里劣势在教育成就中的作用:它们因种族而异吗?
学校和社区是青少年的主要环境,每一个都对他们的学业成功有重大影响。大多数关于教育程度的研究都考察了学校或社区的单一背景的影响,这表明学校和社区的影响以及种族群体之间的潜在差异存在着不同的发现。为了解决这一差距,本研究考察了学校质量和社区劣势对白人和黑人青少年教育成就的影响。这项研究使用了从具有全国代表性的美国青少年样本中收集的全国青少年与成人健康纵向研究数据,合并了多种数据来源,包括家庭调查、学校管理人员调查、学生教育记录和背景数据。教育程度是通过大学入学和毕业状况来衡量的。学校质量是白人和黑人青少年大学入学和毕业的重要预测因素。邻里劣势与两个种族群体的大学入学率显著相关;然而,大学毕业只对白人青少年有意义。这些发现表明,无论种族背景如何,提高学校质量对教育程度都特别重要。文章最后讨论了学校质量和社区劣势在白人和黑人青少年中的不同作用。
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Children & Schools
Children & Schools SOCIAL WORK-
CiteScore
3.50
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期刊介绍: Children & Schools publishes professional materials relevant to social work services for children. The journal publishes articles on innovations in practice, interdisciplinary efforts, research, program evaluation, policy, and planning. Topics include student-authority relationships, multiculturalism, early intervention, needs assessment, violence, and ADHD. Children & Schools is a practitioner-to-practitioner resource.
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