Cognition Four Decades After High School: Does School Context Matter for Cognitive Disparities at Midlife?
Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Adam M. Brickman, Eric Grodsky, Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren, Michael Culbertson · 2025
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Jennifer J Manly and co-authors asked whether high school life shapes thought at age sixty in the same way for all groups. School wealth and rigor are not shared fairly across races in the US. The team used a cohort that tracked more than twelve thousand teens from 1980 to about age sixty. Rich school facts came from the students and their schools at the start.
Richer schoolmates went with sharper midlife thought for White adults and Latina women. The same link did not show for Black adults or Latino men. A school rigor score helped White and Latino adults but not Black adults. Grades and courses told part of the tale as well. The team weighs how much gaps in thought would shrink if all had the schools of the top group. Equal schools, on this proof, would not help all in equal share.
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| CREATOR | Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Adam M. Brickman, Eric Grodsky, Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren, Michael Culbertson |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |