Publications

• Curriculum Vitae (view)
• The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis. With Jeanne Ballantine. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. 2009. (link)
• "Social Capital, Financial Knowledge, and Hispanic Student College Choice." With Noga Admon and Marc Scott. Forthcoming in Research in Higher Education. (link)
• "Paths to Legislation or Litigation for Educational Privilege: New York and San Francisco Compared." Forthcoming in American Journal of Education. (view)
• "For the Record: Editors' Introduction to a Special Issue on Small Secondary Schools." Teachers College Record, 110, 9 (September, 2008): 1739-1743. (link)
• "Off the Record--Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Observations on the Small Schools Movement. Teachers College Record, 110, 9 (September, 2008): 2067-2072. (link)
• "High School Reform, Again," Teachers College Record (link)
• "The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S." The Journal of Higher Education, 76, 1 (January/February, 2005), 89-106. (link)
• "Internet Resources: How Instructors Are Using The World Wide Web in Teaching the Sociology of Education" with Caroline Hodges Persell. 2005. In Teaching Sociology of Education, 6th Edition, issued by the ASA Teaching Resources Center (link)
• The Comprehensive High School Today, published by Teachers College Press, 2004. (link)
• Review of Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, by Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider. American Journal of Education, 111,1 (November, 2004): 132-135. (link)
• "Higher Education." Pp.321-327 in Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., and Alan R. Sadovnik, editors. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
• Review of Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education, by Robert Ibarra. American Journal of Education, 109, 3(May, 2001):397-400. (link)
• "Ethical Issues in Teacher Research." Teachers College Record, 99, Winter 1997, 247-265." (link)