1. Stephen B. Plank, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. His main fields of interest are sociology of education, urban school reform, delinquency, and stratification. Dr. Plank is the codirector of the recently formed Baltimore Education Research Consortium, a partnership of the Baltimore City Public Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and other partners. His current projects focus on solutions to the problem of high school dropouts,...
2. Stefanie DeLuca, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Her main fields of interest are sociology of education, urban sociology, residential mobility, and the transition to adulthood. Dr. DeLuca is engaged in research that involves sociological considerations of education and housing policy. Some of her research examines the transition to college and work for young adults. Other projects focus on the longitudinal effects of housing voucher experiments on...
3. Angela Estacion, MA, is a graduate student, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Her main fields of interest are sociology of the family, sociology of education, and social stratification. Ms. Estacion is currently working on her dissertation, which investigates the relationship among young women's employment and educational trajectories, marriage and cohabitation decisions, and the economic contexts of labor and housing markets during the transition to adulthood.