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Alexandra Allan – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
"Contemporary Perspectives on Girls' Educational Achievement: What About the Girls?" offers fresh insights into girls' perceptions and experiences of educational achievement in the contemporary context. 'What about the boys?' is a common exclamation in debates which centre around young people's educational achievements. But what about…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
Hildegunn Fandrem, Editor; James O’Higgins Norman, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This edited volume consolidates research from 32 countries in order to address the implications of the recent global wave of migration on educational opportunity and assess links between migration and bullying in Europe and further afield. Using data gathered from the European Commission-funded TRIBES project (Transnational Collaboration on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Bullying, Public Policy, Educational Environment
George Georgiou, Editor; Tomohiro Inoue, Editor – Springer, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the literature on home literacy environment and its association with literacy skills in different languages and contexts. Home literacy environment (HLE), an umbrella term that encompasses various activities parents engage in with their children, has been studied extensively by…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Dyslexia
Melissa Osborne – University of Chicago Press, 2024
An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students. While college initiates a major transition in all students' lives, low-income and first-generation students attending elite schools are often entering entirely new worlds. Amid the financial and academic challenges of adapting to…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Mobility, First Generation College Students, Low Income Students