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Grace Kao

IBM Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Verified email at yale.edu
Cited by 16998

Racial and ethnic stratification in educational achievement and attainment

G Kao, JS Thompson - Annual review of sociology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Understanding racial, ethnic, and immigrant variation in educational achievement
and attainment is more important than ever as the US population becomes increasingly …

KILLER/DR5 is a DNA damage-inducible p53-regulated death receptor gene

…, W Jiang, R Meng, ID Krantz, G Kao… - Nature …, 1997 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… GS Wu, TF Burns, ER McDonald 3rd, W Jiang, R Meng, ID Krantz, G Kao, DD Gan, JY
Zhou, R Muschel, SR Hamilton, NB Spinner, S Markowitz, G Wu, WS el-Deiry …

Optimism and achievement: The educational performance of immigrant youth

G Kao, M Tienda - The new immigrants and American schools, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The rise in the volume and diversity of immigrants to the United States since 1960 has
increased concerns about whether assimilation benefits educational achievement. This issue is …

Screening for the risk for bleeding or thrombosis

…, JK Erban, SK Singh, GS Kao - Annals of internal …, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Background: Numerous tests are available to assess patient risk for bleeding or thrombosis.
Appropriate use of these tests must involve consideration of the clinical setting, disease …

Educational aspirations of minority youth

G Kao, M Tienda - American journal of education, 1998 - journals.uchicago.edu
… GRACE KAO is assistant professor of sociology and a research associate at the Population
Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how race, ethnicity…

[HTML][HTML] Gold nanoparticles in radiation research: potential applications for imaging and radiosensitization

…, L Sun, DY Joh, A Witztum, GD Kao… - Translational cancer …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… For example, Hainfeld et al. found that a one-time injection (2.7 g Au/kg body weight) of
1.9 nm GNPs led to accumulation within tumors of up 7 mg Au/g, for a selective tumor-to-normal-…

Minority status and schooling: A comparative study of immigrant and involuntary minorities

G Kao - 1996 - JSTOR
John Ogbu's theory on immigrant and involuntary minorities has been a cent paradigm in
studies of the educational performance and attainment of youth Minority Status and Schooling: …

Barriers to school involvement: Are immigrant parents disadvantaged?

K Turney, G Kao - The Journal of Educational Research, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… , (d) not feeling welcomed by school, (e) problems with transportation, (f) problems because
they speak a language other than English and meetings are conducted only in English, (g) …

[HTML][HTML] The anxiety of being Asian American: Hate crimes and negative biases during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Tessler, M Choi, G Kao - American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020 - Springer
In this essay, we review how the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that began in the United
States in early 2020 has elevated the risks of Asian Americans to hate crimes and Asian …

Asian Americans as model minorities? A look at their academic performance

G Kao - American journal of Education, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
… GRACE KAO University of Chicago … GRACE KAO is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Sociology at the … Direct all correspondence to Grace Kao, Population Research Center, …