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K. Dara Hill – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
This community-based research study examined the perspectives of African American parents of middle-class economic status who participated in a social network pertaining to school choice decisions during the pandemic era of virtual schooling. Their residency and school choices emerged against the grain of urban schools that have racially charged…
Descriptors: Middle Class, African Americans, Parent Aspiration, Social Networks
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wang, Weihong – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
As a linguistically heterogeneous nation, China has 290 languages and nearly 2000 distinct "fangyans" (dialects or subdialects) with "Putonghua" as the national language. These languages and language varieties are hierarchically ranked, based on their wider communicative and socioeconomic values. This paper reports on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese