Background
Entwisle, Doris Roberts was born on September 28, 1924 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Charles Edwin and Helen (McMenigall) Roberts.
( Educational sociologists have paid relatively little at...)
Educational sociologists have paid relatively little attention to children in middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), whereas developmental psychologists have emphasized factors internal to the child much more than the social contexts in explaining children's development. Children, Schools, and Inequality redresses that imbalance. It examines elementary school outcomes (e.g., test scores, grades, retention rates) in light of the socioeconomic variation in schools and neighborhoods, the organizational patterns across elementary schools, and the ways in which family structure intersects with children's school performance. Adding data from the Baltimore Beginning School Study to information culled from the fields of sociology, child development, and education, this book suggests why the gap between the school achievement of poor children and those who are better off has been so difficult to close. Doris Enwistle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Olson show why the first-grade transition—how children negotiate entry into full-time schooling—is a crucial period. They also show that events over that time have repercussions that echo throughout children's entire school careers. Currently the only study of this life transition to cover a comprehensive sample and to suggest straightforward remedies for urban schools, Children, Schools, and Inequality can inform educators, practitioners, and policymakers, as well as researchers in the sociology of education and child development.
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Entwisle, Doris Roberts was born on September 28, 1924 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Charles Edwin and Helen (McMenigall) Roberts.
Bachelor of Science, University Massachusetts, 1945. Master of Science, Brown University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1960.
Postdoctoral fellow Social Science Research Council, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1960-1961; research associate education and electrical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1961-1964; part-time assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1964-1967; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1967-1971; professor sociology and engineering science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1971-1998; professor emerita, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1998. Member commission on child development public policy National Research Council, 1982-1987. Harvard visiting committee for sociology department, 1986-1991.
( Educational sociologists have paid relatively little at...)
(Book by Doris R. Entwisle, Leslie Alec Hayduk)
Fellow American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association (chair section children). Member American Educational Research Association, Society Research in Child Development (public committee 1987-1993, chair 1989-1991, governing council 1993-1999).
Married George Entwisle, August 31, 1946. Children: Barbara, Beverly, George H. Married second Donald Roberts, November 12, 1993.