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Morsy, Leila; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2015
That students' social and economic characteristics shape their cognitive and behavioral outcomes is well established, yet policymakers typically resist accepting that non-school disadvantages necessarily depress outcomes. Rather, they look to better schools and teachers to close achievement gaps, and consistently come up short. This report…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Social Class, Academic Achievement, Child Rearing
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Purdie, Nola; Carroll, Annemaree; Roche, Lawrence – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
This study examined the relationship between adolescents' academic and non-academic self-regulation (SR), authoritative parenting (as demonstrated by high levels of Involvement, Strictness, and Autonomy Granting), and parent self-efficacy in four areas. Participants were 214 Australian high school students and their parents. There was a moderate…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Self Efficacy, Adolescent Attitudes, High School Students
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Pratt, Michael W.; Skoe, Eva E.; Arnold, Mary Louise – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Over the past 20 years, care reasoning has been increasingly recognised as an important aspect of moral development. Skoe has developed an interview measure of levels of care reasoning about the needs of self and other in relationships, the Ethic of Care Interview or ECI. In the present longitudinal research, we investigated developmental changes…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents