Family environments, school resources, and educational outcomes

Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible empi...

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Other Authors Kao, Grace, Park, Hyunjoon
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of education, v. 19
Subjects
Home and school.
Educational psychology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784416270
ISSN1479-3539 ;
DOI10.1108/S1479-3539201619
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 190 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • How schools matter : the need for a contextual perspective / Douglas B. Downey
  • Preschool enrollment, classroom instruction, elementary school context, and the reading achievement of children from low-income families / Robert Crosnoe, Aprile D. Benner, Pamela Davis-Kean
  • The consequences of principal and teacher turnover for school social resources / Paul Hanselman ... [et al.]
  • The effect of mothers' educational credentials on children's outcomes : does being a first-generation or continuing-generation college graduate matter? / Susan A. Dumais, Laura Nichols
  • Children's highbrow cultural activities and academic achievement in Hong Kong / Soo-Yong Byun, Suet-ling Pong
  • The hopes carry them on : early educational expectations and later educational outcomes in rural Gansu, China / Yuping Zhang.

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