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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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Influences on Academic Achievement: A Comparison of Results from Uganda and More Industrialized Societies.
TL;DR: The authors found that neither physical facilities nor characteristics of teachers match the strength of pupil socioeconomic status and other indices of the pupil's out-of-school environment, and that the primacy attributed to socioeconomic status can now be generalized beyond the United States to Great Britain, to Western Europe, and throughout much of the industrialized world.
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Who Goes to School? Educational Stratification by Gender, Caste, and Ethnicity in Nepal
Sharon Stash,Emily Hannum +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine deux problemes majeurs : dabord les effets positifs de lexpansion and la democratisation de lenseignement au Nepal sur les ecarts de niveau d'education subsistant entre les sexes and les classes sociales.
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Identifying Class Size Effects in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Bolivia
TL;DR: In this paper, two research designs that attempt to isolate the effect of class size on achievement have been implemented, focusing on variation in class size in rural schools with fewer than 30 students, and hence only one classroom, per grade.
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Poverty and Basic Education in Rural China: Villages, Households, and Girls’ and Boys’ Enrollment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of conditions economiques locales on le maintien ou le developpement des institutions scolaires, and the impact of these conditions on the conditions d'acces a l'ecole.
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Who Gets Primary Schooling in Pakistan: Inequalities among and within Families
Zeba A. Sathar,Cynthia B. Lloyd +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate analysis is performed to examine factors affecting primary school attendance among and within families in Pakistan, and statistically significant findings indicate that maternal schooling and household consumption increase the probability of completion of primary school and probability of school enrollment for both sexes in urban and rural areas.
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