Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

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The Advanced Placement Arms Race and the Reproduction of Educational Inequality (2013, background): “While it is possible that California’s reforms affected school social organization to such an extent that within schools, disadvantaged students were more likely to enroll in AP courses than advantaged students, such a scenario is not plausible, especially considering evidence that upper-middle clas”
Nonacademic Effects of Homework in Privileged, High-Performing High Schools (2013, background): “Demerath (2009) described that students in such communities have developed a strong work ethic and an “attachment to personal success” (p. 177) that will serve them well in maintaining their status as part of an elite middle class.”
Teachers’ capacity for organizational learning: the effects of school culture and context (2016, result): “…the role of students, who may have a perception of a school’s culture that is different from and perhaps inconsistent with that of adults (see, e.g., Demerath, 2009; Firestone & Louis, 1999; Waller, 1932), as well as characteristics of adult cultures that can only be determined through observation…”