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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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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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TL;DR: In this paper, the author brought up to date the author's conception of social stratification as set forth in two previous general papers written in 1940 and 1953, and to broaden the field of consideration by giving special attention to the forces pressing toward equality in various respects, as well as the bases of inequality.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how gender and wealth interact to generate within country inequalities in educational enrollment and attainment, and found that women are at a great educational disadvantage in countries in South Asia and North, Western, and Central Africa.
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Including Fathers in the Picture: A Meta-Analysis of Parental Involvement and Students' Academic Achievement.
Sung won Kim,Nancy E. Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative strength of the association between educational involvement of fathers versus mothers and achievement of school-age children (kindergarten to 12th grade) was examined and the association of involvement with achievement over time was stronger than for cross-sectional studies.
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The Campbell Collaboration: Does for public policy what Cochrane does for health
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