Shawn Wick

Graduate Student
1152 Social Sciences
612-624-5021
smwick@umn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Research and Teaching Interests
Sociology of Education; Sociology of Development; Globalization; Inequality; Comparative-Historical Sociology
Papers in Progress
"The Effects of High-Stakes Educational Testing on Educational Expansion and Academic Achievement: Cross-National Evidence, 1985-2002." with Evan Schofer
"The Effects of Educational Selectivity and Curricular Differentiation on National Income Inequality: Cross-National Evidence, 1970-2002." with Evan Schofer
"A Political Contingency Model of Inequality: Neoliberalism, Political Arrangements, and Cross-National Income Inequality." with Eric Dahlin and Xi Zhu
"The Mediating Impacts of Organizational Culture and School Characteristics on the Adoption and Implementation of State-Mandated Educational Reforms."
"The Broken Ladder: On the Inherent Inequality of Segregated Schools." with William Rau
"Selectivity and Relative Deprivation in Education: A Replication and Extension of Attewell's Thesis on Winner-Take-All High Schools." with William Rau
Courses Taught
Major Project Seminar (Senior Capstone)
Education and Society (Sociology of Education)
The Sociological Perspective (Introduction to Sociology)
Contemporary Social Problems in a Global Perspective
Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentoring Program
January 25th, 2008