Introduction and Overview, Susan J. Paik, University of San Francisco. Part I: Educational Productivity and Achievement. Using an Educational Productivity Model to Construct Process Models for Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes Among Ethnic Minorities, John Thomas, College of Lake County, Illinois.

Introduction and Overview, Susan J. Paik, University of San Francisco. Part I: Educational Productivity and Achievement. Using an Educational Productivity Model to Construct Process Models for Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes Among Ethnic Minorities, John Thomas, College of Lake County, Illinois. The Intended and Unintended Consequences of High School Graduation Requirement Policy, Peter Teitelbaum, New York University. Part II: Forms of Social Capital. African American Students' Educational Outcomes: The Role of School Relationships, George L. Wimberly, ACT. The Impact of Parent Involvement and Authoritativeness on Academic Achievement: A Cross-Ethnic Comparison, Eunai Park, Ball State University and Gregory Palardy, University of Georgia. The Job Acquisition Process: Social Structure, Undergraduate Resources, and College-to-Work Transitions, Cory Heyman, American Institutes for Research. Part III: Analytic and Measurement Innovation. Application of Event History Modeling for Examining College Student Departure Behavior. Terry Ishitani, Indiana State University. Improving Inferences about Student Achievement: A Multidimensional Perspective, Laura Hamilton, RAND Education. Part IV: International Perspectives on Educational Productivity. A Cross-National Analysis of Student Victimization: School System Effects on School Violence, Motoko Akiba, University of Missouri, Columbia. Toward an Understanding of Hong Kong and United States Students' Mathematics Achievement, Debbie Baofeng Wang, Wellington Consulting Group, Inc. About the Authors.