About the Authors Annette Lareau is Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and past president of the American Sociological Association. Kimberly Goyette is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University. Michael D. M. Bader is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and affiliate of the Center on Health, Risk, and Society at American University. Felicia Butts is an early childhood educator in Chicago. Kyle Crowder is professor in the Department of Sociology and affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. Lori Delale-O’Connor is a research scientist with Child Trends in Washington, D.C. Stefanie DeLuca is associate professor of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. Caroline Hanley is assistant professor of sociology at the College of William and Mary. Paul A. Jargowsky is professor of public policy and director of the Center for Urban Research at Rutgers-Camden. Shelley McDonough Kimelberg is assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University. ix x About the Authors Maria Krysan is professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mary Pattillo is Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Anna Rhodes is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University and a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Education Sciences. Salvatore Saporito is associate professor of sociology at the College of William and Mary. Amy Ellen Schwartz is director of the NYU Institute of Education and Social Policy and professor of public policy, education, and economics at the Wagner School and Steinhardt School, New York University. Leanna Stiefel is professor of economics at the Wagner School of Public Service and professor of economics and education policy at The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Elliot B. Weininger is associate professor of sociology at SUNY College at Brockport..