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674 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2017)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0674 and id is 1 raw text is: The State of Unequal Educational Opportunity: Introduction to the Special Issue on the Coleman Report 50 Years Later By MARGOT I. JACKSON and SUSAN L. MOFFITT Keywords: Coleman Report; inequality; social policy Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, pursuant to Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Equality of Educational Opportunity survey (EEOS)-commonly known as the Coleman Report (Coleman et al. 1966)-was tasked with assessing inequality in American schools and its consequences for student achieve- ment. In the 50 years since the EEOS first appeared in print, tens of thousands of articles and studies have taken up the questions that Coleman raised, the methods that he used, and the conclusions that he reached. The provision of public education remains bedrock to domestic and international social and economic policy Much political debate and scholarship focuses on how to reduce the gaps in achievement that appear along socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic lines by improving schools: how to improve teacher quality, how to improve the distribution of financial resources, and how to introduce rigor- ous curricula. A largely separate body of research simultaneously attends to the out-of-school fac- tors that affect inequality in student achievement; revealing strong inequalities in children's skill development well before school entry; and Margot I. Jackson is an associate professor of sociology at Brown University. Her work focuses on social stratification and social demography, with an emphasis on inequality of educational opportunity, health, and children and families. Susan L. Moffitt is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University. Her work focuses on state capacity to imple- ment policy in the domains of public education and public health. Correspondence: margot-jackson@brown.edu DOI: 10.1177/0002716217733711 ANNALS, AAPSS, 674, November 2017 6

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