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Lam, Gigi – Education, 2014
A socio-psychological analytical framework will be adopted to illuminate the relation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement. The framework puts the emphasis to incorporate micro familial factors into macro factor of the tracking system. Initially, children of the poor families always lack major prerequisite: diminution of cognitive…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Family Influence
Wright, Johnnie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Social promotion is defined as the practice of allowing students who failed to meet performance standards and academic requirements the opportunity to pass on to the next grade with their peers. Although the A+ Educational Reform Act abolished the use of the practice, social promotion continues to occur in numerous school districts across one…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Student Placement, Academic Failure