Existing Literature

Publications relevant to the work of the Post-Secondary Pathways Project are linked below.

Table of Contents

• Access
• Aspirations
• At Risk
  
• Labour Market Outcomes
• Literacy
• Knowledge Mobilization/Knowledge Transfer
  
• TDSB Research

• Access to Post-Secondary Education in Canada Among First and Second Generation Canadian Immigrants:Raw Differences and Some of the Underlying Factors
• American Schooling and Educational Inequality: A Forecast for the 21st Century
• A New Measuring Stick: Is Access to Higher Education in Canada Equitable?
• Education Decisions of Canadian Youth
• Effects of Family Income, Parental Education and Other Background
  Factors on Access to Post‐Secondary Education in Canada
• Price of Knowledge: Access and Student Finance in Canada
• Who Gets What? The Distribution of Government Subsidies for Post-Secondary Education in Canada

• Evolution of Aspirations for University Attendance: A Gender Comparison
• In Pursuit of PSE: Summary Report
• Persistence in Post-Secondary Education in Canada: The Latest Research
• Social Class, Parental Encouragement, and Educational Aspirations
  

At Risk

• From Risk to Resilience (Final Report for the Canadian Council on Learning)

• Choosing to Labour: Structure and Agency in School-Work Transitions
• Comparison of the Labour Market Outcomes of Postsecondary Graduates of Various Levels and Fields over a Four-Cohort Period
• Introduction to Economic and Urban Issues in Canadian Immigration Policy
• Performance of Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
• Triumphant Transitions: Socioeconomic Achievements of the Second Generation in Canada
  

Literacy

• Books Make a Difference: A Study of Access to Literacy
• Home Literacy: Opportunity, Instruction, Cooperation and Social-Emotional Quality Predicting Early Reading Achievement
• Longitudinal Study of Reading Development of Canadian Children from Diverse LinguisticBackgrounds
• Reading skills of young immigrants in Canada: the effects of duration of
  residency, home language exposure and schools
• Reading, syntactic, and working memory skills of bilingual Portuguese-English Canadian children

• CEA/OISE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: Research Use and Its Impact in Secondary Education

TDSB Research

• TDSB Secondary Student Success Indications, 2004-2005
• TDSB Secondary Student Success Indications, 17–21 Year Old Post-Secondary Applications 2006-7