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Kluwin, Thomas N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Data from a longitudinal study of 451 deaf adolescents found racial, gender, and possibly social class effects in their education. Some evidence also suggested interaction of these effects. The study supports consideration of the concept of race in relation to deaf education, in terms of parental income, educational attainment, and language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Deafness, Interaction
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Sammons, Pamela; And Others – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Reports the results of a reanalysis of data from a major longitudinal database on school effectiveness. Finds the existence of differential effectiveness for prior measures of mathematics and reading achievement. Also finds marked differences in schools' rank positions and discusses the implications for the assessment of Britain's National…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups
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Kelley, Deirdre M. – American Sociologist, 1993
Examines conditions that foster and hinder participatory research using examples from a student research project aimed at drop-out reduction undertaken with students in a "last chance" high school. Concludes that students need to be taken seriously as researchers and potential agents of change. (ACM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Environment
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children