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Iheoma U. Iruka; Celeste Hawkins – Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, 2022
Considering the widespread focus on the academic achievement and social behavior of Black boys, there has been a limited focus on Black girls. Recent data from the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights show disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates for girls with Black girls suspended at higher rates (12%) than girls from other…
Descriptors: Student Experience, African American Students, Females, Suspension
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Haeny S. Yoon – Educational Forum, 2024
Young children bring rich social, cultural, and political knowledge to school, cultivated in their homes and communities. This knowledge, ranging from household skills to multilingual practices, is often marginalized in schools that value different norms. Drawing from ethnographic studies in Illinois and New York kindergarten classrooms, this…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Knowledge Level
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Zhao, Fengping; Wei, Chuanguo – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Home-school partnership plays a critical role in student growth and the home-school partnership courses provide important paths to achieving ideal results of the partnership. Under the guidance of the three principles of "life is education", "society is school" and "integrating teaching, learning and practice" in…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Parent Participation
Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Teachers College Press, 2012
While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school students and their families. Through a unique…
Descriptors: Literacy, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, Family Environment
Conrath, Jerry – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Since home is the most unequal environment in education, school should be an arena of equity. Alternative education can catalyze America's unrealized hopes by helping poor, discouraged youngsters overcome their most debilitating handicaps: rampant pessimism, failure to trust in effort, and mistrust of societal institutions. Doing nothing is not an…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, American Dream, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
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Strage, Amy A. – Adolescence, 1998
Proposes a conceptual framework based on attachment theory and parenting styles typology for examining the relationship between family context variables and the development of self-regulation skills. Also presents initial findings from a study of the parental practices and values associated with academic self-regulation in college students.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, College Students