1. Karl L. Alexander, Ph.D., is Chair and John Dewey Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University. His main fields of interest are sociology of education, social stratification, and sociology of human development. Since 1982, the Beginning School Study (BSS), his collaborative project with Doris Entwisle, has been tracking the life progress of a group of Baltimore youths. The BSS panel now extends from the first grade to ages 28–29. Dr. Alexander's current research focuses on the...
2. Robert Bozick, Ph.D., is Research Scientist, Education Studies Division, RTI International, Washington, DC. His main fields of interest are the linkages between school and work over the life course, inequality in higher education, and the transition to adulthood for low-income youths. Dr. Bozick is currently working on a multimethod evaluation of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act for the Policy and Program Studies Service at the U.S. Department of Education.
3. Doris R. Entwisle, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Sociology (emerita), Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Her main area of interest is the sociology of human development over the life course, with a special emphasis on issues of inequality. Her current research concerns the ways in which members of the BSS panel make the transition to adulthood and how social and financial disadvantage early in life alters the life situations of adults in their early 20s. Her book (with Karl L. Alexander...