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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis:
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Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr....Abstract:
Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr...read more
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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More Tools for the Synthesist’s Toolbag in Harris Cooper’s Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (4th ed.)
TL;DR: Cooper's revised and expanded fourth edition of Research Synthesis and MetaAnalysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (2010) provides these needed guidelines with special attention given to the threats to validity at all steps of the research synthesis process.
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood as mentioned in this paper examines the long-term outcomes of the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP), a representative sample of Baltimore public school first-graders selected in the fall of 1982 and followed through 2006.
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Family socio-economic status and children's academic achievement: The different roles of parental academic involvement and subjective social mobility.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is a pathway from family SES to children's academic achievement through parental academic involvement and that this pathway is dependent on the level of parental subjective social mobility.
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The sociology of elite education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on a single channel that has come to play a crucial role in post-industrial societies, that is schools and, more precisely, uppersecondary and higher education institutions, and on their influence in three different national contexts: France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964-2015. CEPA Working Paper No. 17-04.
TL;DR: The existence of a "socioeconomic achievement gap" between students from high and low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds is well-known in educational research.
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Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis
Sandra García,Juan E. Saavedra +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors meta-analyze for impact and cost-effectiveness 94 studies from 47 conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in low and middle-income countries worldwide focusing on educational outcomes that include enrollment, attendance, dropout and school completion.
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The quadratic relationship between socioeconomic status and learning performance in China by multilevel analysis: Implications for policies to foster education equity
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between family socioeconomic status and mathematics performance on the base of a multi-level analysis involving a large sample of Chinese primary school students and found that individuals from a disadvantaged family and higher socioeconomic background have a higher probability to attain higher mathematics scores.
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The influence of Parents Educational level on Secondary School Students Academic achievements in District Rajanpur
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence and impact of parents educational level on students a cademic achievement at secondary level of education was conducted to find the impact of parental education status at students academic achievements of secondary school level.
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