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Paul E. Peterson; M. Danish Shakeel; Angela K. Dills – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Chetty et al. (2022) say county density of cross-class friendships (referred to here as "adult-bridging capital") has causal impacts on social mobility within the United States. We instead find that social mobility rates are a function of county density of family capital (higher marriage rates and two-person households), community…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Mobility, Friendship, Social Capital
Oyerinde, Bolanle Adenike – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Low involvement of African American parents in middle school education is a concern in a school district in the southeastern United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationships between the explanatory variables of parental involvement, socioeconomic status, and level of education, and the achievement of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parent Participation, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students
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Kitmitto, Sami – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) continues to be interested in addressing the issue identified by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). With the release of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and mathematics assessments, NCES again had the opportunity to measure the status and change in…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, National Competency Tests, Methods