Inequality in Key Skills of City Youth

Stephen Lamb is professor emeritus in the Centre for International Research on Education Systems at Victoria University. He is director of the International Study of City Youth project, and his research is concerned with how well schools and education systems work, for whom they do not work well, and why. He has published across several areas, including educational inequality, school-to-work transition, the schooling of disadvantaged students, school effectiveness, and education system policy. He has undertaken a range of high-impact policy research projects for governments and school systems, both nationally and internationally, on school funding, performance of schools and school systems, and quality of school programs.

Russell W. Rumberger is a professor emeritus in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely in several areas of education, including education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; student mobility; school segregation; school effectiveness; and education policy. He is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education.