Table of Contents

1. Understanding Sociocultural Differences in Decoding Instruction & Demonstrating Knowledge 2. Unequal Skills: Decoding and Demonstrating Knowledge 3. Learning How to Decode and Demonstrate Knowledge from Parents 4. The Academic Hidden Curriculum: Learning How (Not) to Decode & Demonstrate Knowledge from Teachers 5. Unequal Rewards & Punishments for Demonstrating Knowledge 6. Unequal Skills & Punishments: Segregated Friendships & Concentrated (Dis)Advantage 7. Moving Forward as Theorists and Practitioners Appendix A. Research Methods

About the Author

Karen Phelan Kozlowski is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.