Black in School: How Race Impacts the Effect of Concerted Cultivation on Educational Success

Mosby, Jordan

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Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Mosby, Jordan (creator); Owens, Jayanti (Advisor); Van Cleve, Nicole (Reader); Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: race; Education; African Americans; concerted cultivation
Extent:: , None p.

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Abstract:: Education scholars have long noted a positive relationship between concerted cultivation and test scores. Yet, few studies have found variation by race, a factor Black middle-class scholars note impacts parental decision making. The current project asks how race moderates the relationship between concerted cultivation and education. We use data from the 2011 ECLS-K cohort to measure the impact of concerted cultivation on fifth-grade students’ math and reading test scores. In an analysis of 18,135 students across the U.S., we find statistically nonsignificant support for a negative relationship between concerted cultivation and math and reading scores for Black fifth-grade students. Results confirm the impact of parental involvement and structured activities as beneficial variables that increase all students' test scores. The present study impacts the ways scholars consider the role of race in shaping the cultural resources that students learn through the habitus. This project bridges two distinct literatures and experiences that merge in the experience of Black students’ educational journeys.
Notes:: Thesis (A. M.)--Brown University, 2021

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Mosby, Jordan, "Black in School: How Race Impacts the Effect of Concerted Cultivation on Educational Success" (2021). Sociology Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:uzwdw546/

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