| TABLE OF CONTENTS | vii |
| TABLES AND FIGURES, | ix |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xi |
| CHAPTER 1 | 1 |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Changing Demographics in the United States | 3 |
| Nature and Extent of the Achievement Gap | 5 |
| Explaining Mexican American Underachievement | 8 |
| Where Traditional Explanations Fall Short | 9 |
| Society's Interest in Eliminating the Achievement Gap | 10 |
| The Current Study | 11 |
| Overview | 16 |
| CHAPTER 2 | 21 |
| The Achievement Gap, Social Capital and Mobility: An Overview | 21 |
| Theories Employed to Investigate the Achievement Gap | 22 |
| Where Traditional Explanations Fall Short | 25 |
| Social Capital | 26 |
| Mobility | 40 |
| Summary | 46 |
| CHAPTER 3 | 49 |
| Mixed-Methods Research Design | 49 |
| The Current Study | 49 |
| Research Design, Data Collection and Interpretation | 51 |
| Summary | 64 |
| CHAPTER 4 | 69 |
| Test-Score Performance and Rates of Mobility by Socioeconomic and Nativity Status | 69 |
| The Twelfth Grade Test Score Gap | 69 |
| The Incidence of Mobility | 72 |
| The Causes of Student Mobility | 76 |
| Summary | 82 |
| CHAPTER 5 | 87 |
| Group-Level Differences in the Availability of Social Capital by Socioeconomic and Nativity Status | 87 |
| Family Social Capital 89 | |
| Family Social Capital by SES and Immigrant Status | 90 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican American Underachievement.
Contributors: Robert Ketner Ream - Author.
Publisher: LFB Scholarly.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: vii.
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