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Gamoran, Adam, and Sean Kelly. In press. “Tracking, Instruction, and Unequal Literacy in Secondary School English.” In M. T. Hallinan, A. Gamoran, W. Kubitschek, and T. Loveless (Eds.), Stability and Change in American Education: Structure, Processes and Outcomes. Clinton Corners, NY: Eliot Werner Publications.

Gamoran, Adam, Charles W. Anderson, Pamela A. Quiroz, Walter G. Secada, Tona Williams, and Scott Ashmann. 2003. Transforming Teaching in Math and Science: How Schools and Districts Can Support Change. New York: Teachers College Press.

Carbonaro, William J. and Adam Gamoran. 2002. “The Production of Inequality in High School English,” American Educational Research Journal, 39: 801-827.

Lucas, Samuel R., and Adam Gamoran. 2002. “Track Assignment and the Black-White Test Score Gap: Divergent and Convergent Evidence from 1980 and 1990 Sophomores.” In T. Loveless (Ed.), Closing the Gap: Promising Strategies for Reducing the Achievement Gap. Washington, DC: Brookings.

Huang, Min-Hsiung and Robert M. Hauser. 2001. “Convergent Trends in Black-White Verbal Test Score Differentials in the U.S.: Period and Cohort Perspectives.” EurAmerica 31, No.2 (June): 185-230.

Miech, Richard A., and Robert M. Hauser. 2001. “Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Health at Midlife: A Comparison of Educational Attainment with Occupation-Based Indicators.” Annals of Epidemiology 11 (February): 75-84.

Hauser, Robert M., Devah I. Pager, and Solon J. Simmons. “Race-Ethnicity, Social Background, and Grade Retention,” The CEIC Review: in press. (Also to appear in Margaret C. Wang and Herbert Walberg (eds), Can Unlike Students Learn Together? Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping. Available as CDE Working Paper 2000-08, Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison.)

Gamoran, Adam, and Eileen C. Hannigan. 2000. “Algebra for Everyone? Benefits of College Preparatory Mathematics for Students with Diverse Abilities in Early Secondary School.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 22, 241-254.

Hauser, Robert M., John Robert Warren, Min-Hsiung Huang, and Wendy Y. Carter. 2000. “Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy.” Pp. 179-229 in K. Arrow, S. Bowles, and S. Durlauf, eds., Meritocracy and Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Gamoran, Adam, and Matthew Weinstein. 1998. “Differentiation and Opportunity in Restructured Schools.” American Journal of Education, 106, 385-415.

Warren, John Robert, Jennifer T. Sheridan, and Robert M. Hauser. 1998. “Choosing a Measure of Occupational Standing: How Useful are Composite Measures in Analyses of Gender Inequality in Occupational Attainment?” Sociological Methods and Research 27 (August): 3-76.

Hauser, Robert M., and Hsiang-Hui Daphne Kuo. 1998. “Does the Gender Composition of Sibships Affect Educational Attainment?” Journal of Human Resources 33 (Summer): 644-57.

Hauser, Robert M., and Min-Hsiung Huang. 1997. “Verbal Ability and Socioeconomic Success: A Trend Analysis,” Social Science Research 26 (September): 331-76.

Gamoran, Adam, Andrew C. Porter, John Smithson, and Paula A. White. 1997. “Upgrading High School Mathematics Instruction: Improving Learning Opportunities for Low-Income, Low-Achieving Youth.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 19, 325-338.

Hauser, Robert M., and Megan M. Sweeney. 1997. “Does Poverty in Adolescence Affect the Life Chances of High School Graduates?” Pp. 541-95 in Greg Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (eds.) Consequences of Growing Up Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.