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Citations
19380
World Ranking
1972
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945

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2017 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Sean F. Reardon is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including education, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, health, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research topics cover several areas within social sciences, notably:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Higher Education Research Studies

Recent publications authored by Sean F. Reardon include:

  • Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps, 2024, American Sociological Review

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sean F. Reardon are:

  • Erin M. Fahle
  • Demetra Kalogrides
  • Ericka S. Weathers
  • Heewon Jang
  • Gabriel L. Schwartz

Their work has been published in various academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
  • AERA Open
  • American Sociological Review
  • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • Race and Social Problems

Sean F. Reardon has received several awards throughout their career. These honors include:

  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2018
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
  • Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association, 2013

Best Publications

  • The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Explanations

    Sean F. Reardon

  • Income inequality and income segregation.

    Sean F. Reardon;Kendra Bischoff

  • Measures of Multigroup Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh

  • Measures of Spatial Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;David O’Sullivan

  • The Widening Income Achievement Gap.

    Sean F. Reardon

  • The Hispanic-White Achievement Gap in Math and Reading in the Elementary Grades:

    Sean F. Reardon;Claudia Galindo

  • 60 Years After Brown: Trends and Consequences of School Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Ann Owens

  • Recent Trends in Income, Racial, and Ethnic School Readiness Gaps at Kindergarten Entry:

    Sean F. Reardon;Ximena A. Portilla

  • Income Segregation Between Schools and School Districts

    Ann Owens;Sean F. Reardon;Christopher Jencks

  • Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales.

    Barrett A. Lee;Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh;Chad R. Farrell

  • Reclassification Patterns Among Latino English Learner Students in Bilingual, Dual Immersion, and English Immersion Classrooms

    Ilana M. Umansky;Sean F. Reardon

  • The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Stephen A. Matthews;David O’Sullivan;Barrett A. Lee

  • Descriptive Analysis in Education: A Guide for Researchers. NCEE 2017-4023.

    Susanna Loeb;Susan Dynarski;Daniel McFarland;Pamela Morris

  • The Growth of Segregation in American Schools: Changing Patterns of Separation and Poverty Since 1968

    Gary Orfield;Sara Schley;Diane Glass;Sean Reardon

  • Patterns and Trends in Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Academic Achievement Gaps

    Sean F. Reardon;Joseph P. Robinson-Cimpian;Ericka S. Weathers

  • The changing structure of school segregation: Measurement and evidence of multiracial metropolitan-area school segregation, 1989–1995

    Sean F. Reardon;John T. Yun;Tamela McNulty Eitle

  • Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990–2009:

    Sean F. Reardon;Lindsay Fox;Joseph Townsend

  • Brown Fades: The End of Court‐Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools

    Sean F. Reardon;Elena Tej Grewal;Demetra Kalogrides;Erica Greenberg

  • The geography of racial/ethnic test score gaps

    Sean F. Reardon;Demetra Kalogrides;Kenneth Shores

  • Effectiveness of Four Instructional Programs Designed to Serve English Learners Variation by Ethnicity and Initial English Proficiency

    Rachel A. Valentino;Sean F. Reardon

  • Retail Tobacco Outlet Density and Youth Cigarette Smoking: A Propensity-Modeling Approach

    Scott P. Novak;Sean F. Reardon;Stephen W. Raudenbush;Stephen L. Buka

  • The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor

    Sean F. Reardon

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen W. Raudenbush
Stephen W. Raudenbush University of Chicago
Richard J. Murnane
Richard J. Murnane Harvard University
Glenn Firebaugh
Glenn Firebaugh Pennsylvania State University
Stephen A. Matthews
Stephen A. Matthews Pennsylvania State University
Barrett A. Lee
Barrett A. Lee Pennsylvania State University
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel Columbia University
Elizabeth A. Stuart
Elizabeth A. Stuart Johns Hopkins University
Gary Orfield
Gary Orfield University of California, Los Angeles
Robert T. Brennan
Robert T. Brennan Boston College
Pamela Morris
Pamela Morris New York University

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