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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
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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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An Examination of Primary School Attendance and Completion among Secondary School Age Adolescents in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone.
TL;DR: Sierra Leone was ravaged by a civil war between 1991 and 2002 as mentioned in this paper, and since the end of the war, it has witnessed an unprecedented increase in school enrollments. Although school enrollment has increased, although school enrollment had increased,...
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The effect of free primary education policy on late school entry in urban primary schools in Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of four sites in Nairobi, the aim of this paper is to assess whether the free primary education (FPE) policy has affected late enrolment.
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Maternal phenotype, independent of family economic capital, predicts educational attainment in lowland nepalese children
Akanksha A. Marphatia,Delan Devakumar,Jonathan C. K. Wells,Naomi Saville,Alice Reid,Anthony Costello,Dharma S Manandhar,David Osrin +7 more
TL;DR: Factors acting before children are born or reach school‐going age may explain why some do not complete primary education and many relevant factors relate to maternal phenotype, but few studies have tested for independent associations.
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Parental Socio-Economic Status, Family Type and School Dropout in the Ewutu Educational Circuit Winneba, Ghana – Implication for Counseling
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Socio-economic differentials in intergenerational educational mobility among women in India
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