Summary: Do schools reproduce or challenge inequality? And how can we know one way or another? Douglas Downey [1] calls into the Contexts Podcast to help us answer these questions. Be sure to check out Downey's Spring 2010 Contexts feature How Schools Really Matter [2]! Also: Jon shares a discovery about gender and software development from last month's JITP conference [3] on The Politics of Open Source by Hanna Wallach [4] and the FLOSSPOLS project [5]. Download episode #37 now! [6] [1] http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/personnel/faculty/?personID=dbd [2] http://contexts.org/articles/spring-2010/how-schools-really-matter/ [3] http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/ [4] http://www.cs.umass.edu/~wallach/ [5] http://flosspols.org/ [6] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=56034.mp3
