Archived Information

References

Alexander, Karl L., and Martha A. Cook. 1982. "Curricula and Coursework: A Surprise Ending to a Familiar Story." American Sociological Review 47 (1982): 626 - 640.

Alexander, Karl L., and Aaron M. Pallas. 1984. "Curriculum Reform and School Performance: An Evaluation of the New Basics." American Journal of Education 92:391 - 420.

Altonji, Joseph G. 1992. The Effects of High School Curriculum on Education and Labor Market Outcomes. Evanston, IL: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University.

Arrow, Kenneth. 1973. "Higher Education as a Filter." Journal of Public Economics 2:193 - 216.

Becker, Gary S. 1964. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. New York: Columbia University Press.

Berends, Mark. 1992. Effects on School Orientations and Achievement in the Transition from Middle to High School. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Berryman, Sue E., and James E. Rosenbaum. 1992. "Certification of Work Competencies." Pp. 51 - 59 in James E. Rosenbaum, David Stern, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Stephen F. Hamilton, Sue E. Berryman, and Richard Kazis, Youth Apprenticeship in America. Washington, DC: William T. Grant Foundation.

Bills, David. 1988. "Educational Credentials and Hiring Decisions: What Employers Look For in Entry-Level Employees." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 7:71 - 97.

Bills, David. 1992. "A Survey of Employer Surveys." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 11:3 - 31.

Bishop, John. 1985. Preparing Youth for Employment. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 254 644.

Bishop, John. 1988. Employment Testing and Incentives to Learn. Ithaca, NY: Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, Working Paper 88 - 12. ERIC document no. ED 305 365.

Bishop, John H. 1989. "Why the Apathy in American High Schools?" Educational Researcher 18:6 - 10, 42.

Bishop, John. 1993. Incentives to Study and the Organization of Secondary Instruction. Ithaca, NY: Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University, Working Paper 93 - 08.

Blackburn, McKinley L., and David Neumark. 1993. "Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in Returns to Schooling." Journal of Labor Economics 11:521 - 544.

Blau, Peter, and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books.

Cameron, Stephen, and James Heckman. 1993. "Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents." Journal of Labor Economics 11:1 - 47.

Campbell, Paul B., Mollie N. Orth, and Patricia Seitz. 1981. Patterns of Participation in Secondary Vocational Education. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 209 476.

Cappelli, Peter. 1992. Is the `Skills Gap' Really about Attitudes? Philadelphia, PA: National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce. Cappelli, Peter, and Nikolai Rogovsky. 1993a. Skills and Individual Performance. Philadelphia, PA: National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce.

Cappelli, Peter, and Nikolai Rogovsky. 1993b. Skill Demands, Changing Work Organization, and Performance. Philadelphia, PA: National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce.

Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society. New York: Academic Press.

Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. 1990. America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! Rochester, NY: National Center on Education and the Economy.

Conant, James B. 1959. The American High School Today. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Conant, James B. 1959. The Comprehensive High School. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Crouse, James. 1979. "The Effects of Academic Ability." Pp. 85 - 121 in Christopher Jencks, Susan Bartlett, Mary Corcoran, James Crouse, David Eaglesfield, Gregory Jackson, Kent McClelland, Peter Mueser, Michael Olneck, Joseph Schwartz, Sherry Ward, and Jill Williams, Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.

Daymont, Thomas N., and Russell Rumberger. 1982. "The Impact of High School Curriculum on the Earnings and Employability of Youth." Pp.279 - 305 in Robert E. Taylor, Howard Rosen, and Frank C. Pratzner (Eds.), Job Training for Youth. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 222 640. (A slightly shorter version was published as Russell W. Rumberger and Thomas N. Daymont, 1984, "The Economic Value of Academic and Vocational Training Acquired in High School," in Michael E. Borus, Ed., Youth and the Labor Market, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute.)

Ekstrom, Ruth B., Margaret E. Goertz, and Donald Rock. 1988. Education and American Youth: The Effects of High School Experiences. New York: Falmer Press.

Featherman, David L., and Robert M. Hauser. 1978. Opportunity and Change. New York: Academic Press.

Gamoran, Adam. 1987a. "The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities." Sociology of Education 60:135 - 155.

Gamoran, Adam. 1987b. "Instruction and the Effects of Schooling." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Gamoran, Adam. 1989. "Measuring Curriculum Differentiation." American Journal of Education 97:129 - 143.

Gamoran, Adam, and Mark Berends. 1987. "The Effects of Stratification in Secondary Schools: Synthesis of Survey and Ethnographic Research. Review of Educational Research 57:415 - 435.

Gamoran, Adam, and Robert D. Mare. 1989. "Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Reinforcement, Compensation, or Neutrality?" American Journal of Sociology 94:1146 - 1183.

Gamoran, Adam, Martin Nystrand, Mark Berends, and Paul C. LePore. 1992. "Beyond Technical Rationality: Ability Group Differences in the Distribution and Effects of Classroom Instruction." Paper presented at the International Seminar on Equity in Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gardner, John A. 1984. Influences of High School Curriculum on Determinants of Labor Market Experiences. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 248 337. Grasso, John T., and John R. Shea. 1979. Vocational Education and Training: Impact on Youth. Berkeley, CA: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Griffin, Larry J., and Karl L. Alexander. 1978. "Schooling and Socioeconomic Attainments: High School and College Influences." American Journal of Sociology 84:319 - 347.

Grubb, Norton, and Cathy Stasz. 1992. Assessing the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education: Methods and Questions. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education. ERIC document no. ED 347 340.

Gustman, Alan L., and Thomas L. Steinmeier. 1982. "The Relation between Vocational Training in High School and Economic Outcomes." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 36:73 - 87.

Hause, John C. 1975. "Ability and Schooling as Determinants of Lifetime Earnings, or If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?" Pp. 123 - 145 in F. Thomas Juster (Ed.), Education, Income, and Human Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hollenbeck, Kevin. 1993. "Postsecondary Education as Triage: Returns to Academic and Technical Programs." Economics of Education Review 12:213 - 232.

Hotchkiss, Lawrence. 1993. "Effects of Training, Occupation, and Training-Occupation Match on Wage." Journal of Human Resources 28:482 - 496.

Hotchkiss, Lawrence, and Linda Eberst Dorsten. 1987. "Curriculum Effects on Early Post-High School Outcomes." Pp. 191 - 219 in Ronald Corwin (Ed.), Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization, volume 7. Greenwich, CT: JAI press.

Hunter, John E., and Ronda F. Hunter. 1984. "Validity and Utility of Alternative Predictors of Job Performance." Psychological Bulletin 96:72 - 98.

Jencks, Christopher, Susan Bartlett, Mary Corcoran, James Crouse, David Eaglesfield, Gregory Jackson, Kent McClelland, Peter Mueser, Michael Olneck, Joseph Schwartz, Sherry Ward, and Jill Williams. 1979. Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.

Jones, L. V., E. C. Davenport, A. Bryson, T. Bekhuis, and R. Zwick. 1986. "Math and Science Test Scores as Related to Courses Taken in High School and Other Factors." Journal of Educational Measurement 23:197 - 208.

Kang, Suk. 1984. "Time Profile of Youths' Labor Market Outcomes: An Analysis of High School and Beyond Data." Pp. 95 - 147 in Lawrence Hotchkiss, Suk Kang, and John Bishop (Eds.), High School Preparation for Employment. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 297 158.

Kang, Suk, and John Bishop. 1986. "Effects of Curriculum on Labor Market Success Immediately after High School." Journal of Industrial Teacher Education 23:15 - 29.

Kang, Suk, and John Bishop. 1989. "Vocational and Academic Education in High School: Complements or Substitutes?" Economics of Education Review 8:133 - 148.

Kerckhoff, Alan C. 1986. "Effects of Ability Grouping in British Secondary Schools." American Sociological Review 51:842 - 858.

Kifer, Edward. In press. "Opportunities, talents, and participation. In Leigh Burstein (Ed.), Second International Mathematics Study: Student Growth and Classroom Progress in the Lower Secondary School. London: Pergamon Press.

Lee, Valerie E., and Anthony S. Bryk. 1988. "Curriculum Tracking as Mediating the Social Distribution of High School Achievement." Sociology of Education 62:78 - 94. Levin, Henry M. 1993. "Education and Jobs." In David Corson and Stephen B. Lawton (Eds.), Education and Work, vol. 1, Proceedings of the International Conference Linking Research and Practice. Toronto: Ontario Institute for the Study of Education.

Levy, Frank, and Richard J. Murnane. 1992. "U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations." Journal of Economic Literature 30:1333 - 1381.

McKnight, Curtis C., F. Joe Crosswhite, John A. Dossey, Edward Kifer, Jane O. Swafford, Kenneth J. Travers, and Thomas J. Cooney. 1987. The Underachieving Curriculum. Champaign, IL: Stipes.

Meyer, Robert H. 1982. "Job Training in the Schools." Pp. 307 - 344 in Robert E. Taylor, Howard Rosen, and Frank C. Pratzner (Eds.), Job Training for Youth. Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Ohio State University. ERIC document no. ED 222 640.

Meyer, Robert H. 1992. Applied versus Traditional Mathematics: New Econometric Models of the Contribution of High School Courses to Mathematics Proficiency. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty, Discussion Paper 966 - 92.

Meyer, Robert K., and David A. Wise. 1982. "High School Preparation and Early Labor Force Experience." Pp. 277 - 347 in Richard B. Freeman and David A. Wise (Eds.), The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mincer, Jacob. 1974. Schooling, Experience, and Earnings. New York: Columbia University Press.

Moore, Elsie G. J., and A. Wade Smith. 1985. "Mathematics Aptitude: Effects of Coursework, Household Language, and Ethnic Differences. Urban Education 20:273 - 294.

Moore, Donald R., and Suzanne Davenport. 1988. The New Improved Sorting Machine. Madison, WI: National Center on Effective Secondary Schools.

Mueser, Peter. 1979. "The Effects of Noncognitive Traits." Pp. 122 - 58 in Christopher Jencks, Susan Bartlett, Mary Corcoran, James Crouse, David Eaglesfield, Gregory Jackson, Kent McClelland, Peter Mueser, Michael Olneck, Joseph Schwartz, Sherry Ward, and Jill Williams, Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.

Murnane, Richard J., John B. Willett, and Frank Levy. 1993. "The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination." Cambridge, MA: Unpublished manuscript, Harvard University.

National Assessment of Educational Progress. 1990a. The Reading Report Card, 1971 - 88. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

National Assessment of Educational Progress. 1990b. The Writing Report Card, 1984 - 88. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

National Assessment of Educational Progress. 1993 . NAEP 1992 Mathematics Report Card for the Nation and the States: Data from the Nation and Trial State Assessments. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

National Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983. A Nation at Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Natriello, Gary, Aaron M. Pallas, and Karl L. Alexander. 1989. "On the Right Track? Curriculum and Academic Achievement." Sociology of Education 62:09 - 118. Oakes, Jeannie. 1985. Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Olneck, Michael. 1979. "The Effects of Education." Pp. 159 - 190 in Christopher Jencks, Susan Bartlett, Mary Corcoran, James Crouse, David Eaglesfield, Gregory Jackson, Kent McClelland, Peter Mueser, Michael Olneck, Joseph Schwartz, Sherry Ward, and Jill Williams, Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. New York: Basic Books.

Olneck, Michael R., and David Bills. 1980. "What Makes Sammy Run? An Empirical Assessment of the Bowles-Gintis Correspondence Theory." American Journal of Education 89:27 - 61.

Olson, Lynn. 1993. "Tenn. is Latest State to Eliminate General Track." Education Week, September 29, p.18, 20.

O'Neil, John. 1992. "Preparing for the Changing Workplace." Educational Leadership 29 (6):6 - 9.

Page, Reba N. 1991. Lower Track Classrooms: A Curricular and Cultural Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press.

Powell, Arthur, Elanor Farrar, and David K. Cohen. The Shopping-Mall High School. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1985.

Psacharopolous, George. 1987. "Earnings Functions." Pp.218 - 223 in George Psacharopolous (Ed.), Economics of Education: Research and Studies. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. 1992. "Quantitative Literacy and the Likelihood of Employment among Young Adults in the United States." Journal of Human Resources 27:313 - 328.

Rosenbaum, James E. 1976. Making Inequality: The Hidden Curriculum of High School Tracking. New York: Wiley.

Rosenbaum, James E., and Amy Binder. 1994. "Do Employers Really Need More Educated Youth?" Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles.

Rosenbaum, James E. 1989. "What if Good Jobs Depended on Good Grades?" American Educator 13(4):10 - 43.

Schmidt, William H. 1983. "High School Coursetaking: Its Relationship to Achievement." Journal of Curriculum Studies 15:311 - 332.

Schultz, Theodore W. 1963. The Economic Value of Education. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sebring, Penny A. 1987. "Consequences of Differential Amounts of High School Coursework: Will the New Graduation Requirements Help?" Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 3:258 - 273.

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. 1991. What Work Requires of Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor.

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. 1992. Learning a Living: A Blueprint for High Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor.

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. 1993. Teaching the SCANS Competencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor. Stern, D., C. Dayton, I. Paik, A. Weisberg, and J. Evans. 1988. "Combining Academic and Vocational Courses in an Integrated Program to Reduce High School Dropout Rates: Second-Year Results from Replications of the California Peninsula Academies." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 10:161 - 170.

Stern, D., C. Dayton, I. Paik, and A. Weisberg. 1989. "Benefits and Costs of Dropout Preventions in an High School Program Combining Academic and Vocational Education: Third-Year Results from Replications of the California Peninsula Academies." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 11:405 - 416.

Sticht, Thomas G. 1991. "Assessing Academic Outcomes in Vocational Education." Pp. 115 - 127 in Anne H. App (Compiler), Papers Presented at the Design Conference for the National Assessment of Vocational Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Taggart, Robert, Andrew Sum, and Gordon Berlin. 1987. "Basic Skills: The Sine Qua Non." Youth and Society 19:3 - 21.

Taubman, Paul, and Terence Wales. 1975. "Education as an Investment and a Reening Device." Pp. 95 - 121 in F. Thomas Juster (Ed.), Education, Income, and Human Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Trow, Martin. 1961. "The Second Transformation of American Secondary Education." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 2:144 - 165.

U.S. General Accounting Office. 1990. Preparing Noncollege Youth for Employment in the U.S. and Foreign Countries (GAO/HRD-90 - 88). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

Vanfossen, Beth E., James D. Jones, and Joan Z. Spade. 1987. "Curriculum Tracking and Status Maintenance." Sociology of Education 60:104 - 122.

Walberg, Herbert J., and Timothy Shanahan. 1983. "High School Effects on Individual Students." Educational Researcher 12:4 - 9.

Welch, Finis. 1974. "Relationship between Income and Schooling." Review of Research in Education 2: 179 - 201.

Welch, Wayne W., Ronald E. Anderson, and Linda J. Harris. 1982. "The Effects of Schooling on Mathematics Achievement." American Educational Research Journal 19:145 - 153.

William T. Grant Foundation. 1988a. The Forgotten Half: Non-College Youth in America. An Interim Report on the School-to-Work Transition. Washington, DC: William T. Grant Foundation, Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship.

William T. Grant Foundation. 1988b. The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America's Youth and Young Families. Final Report. Washington, DC: William T. Grant Foundation, Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship.

Willis, Robert J., and Sherwin Rosen. 1979. "Education and Self-Selection." Journal of Political Economy 87:S7 - S36.

Wise, David A. 1975. "Academic Achievement and Job Performance." American Economic Review 65:350 - 366.

[Conclusions]

[The Effect of High School Vocational Education on Academic . . .]