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Barrett DeWiele, Corinne E.; Edgerton, Jason D. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2016
In this paper, we revisit Brown's ("Br J Soc Educ" 14: 65-85, 1990) concept of "parentocracy" which has been informatively applied in educational research in a number of studies in various countries internationally--but almost none in North America. We provide an expanded conceptualization of parentocracy and suggest that it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Middle Class, Advantaged
Duncan, Greg J.; Murnane, Richard J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Can the nation's schools meet today's challenge of providing all students with the skills they will need to thrive in the rapidly changing economy and society of the 21st century? The authors point out in this article that a large percentage of children, overwhelmingly from low-income families, end their formal schooling without the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Equal Education, Skill Development, Disadvantaged
Kostelnik, Marjorie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
Children are exploring elements of literacy and numeracy. Such explorations begin in the earliest days of life and are a natural outgrowth of children's curiosity and interest in how the world works. Based on experiences, children build a reservoir of knowledge about language, reading, and mathematics that they take with them to kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Young Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices