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Quinn, F. Duane – College Board Review, 1991
One of the most affluent segments of the population is also one of the least well prepared to face the reality of college costs. It is not the need analysis system that causes difficulty but a combination of rapidly increasing costs and the changing lifestyle of this group. (MSE)
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Higher Education, Life Style, Middle Class Parents
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1995
Reports of parenting styles were assessed in 100 mostly white, middle-class, 6th, 8th, and 10th graders and their parents. Adolescents viewed their parents as more permissive and more authoritarian than parents viewed themselves, whereas parents viewed themselves as more authoritative than did adolescents. Differences were primarily over the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Middle Class Parents, Middle Class Students
Etaugh, Claire; Hall, Patricia – 1978
This paper explores the hypothesis that parents consider preschool education to be more important for boys than for girls. To test this hypothesis, the following questions were examined: (1) Are boys disproportionately enrolled in nursery school? and (2) Do parents emphasize different reasons for enrolling boys and girls? The effect of social…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Rate, Lower Class Parents
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Lucey, Helen; Reay, Diane – Journal of Education Policy, 2002
Examines ways in which current United Kingdom school-choice policies interact with parental pressures on their children to achieve excellence and how these pressures affect the emotional health of their middle- and working-class children as they make the transition from primary to secondary school. Finds serious emotional consequences (exam…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Brantlinger, Ellen Anderson – American Journal of Education, 1985
Interviews with low-income parents revealed that they were aware of the class character of local schools and believed that high-income schools were superior. Ninety-four percent favored social class school desegregation, believing that their children would thereby obtain a better education and better preparation for social interaction in adult…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Interviews
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Etaugh, Claire; Hall, Patricia – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1980
Based on data from questionnaires concerning 600 parents' reasons for enrolling their children in nursery school, it is suggested that lower-class parents consider preschool education to be more important for boys than for girls. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Lower Class Parents, Middle Class Parents, Parent Attitudes
Cagle, Laurence T.; Beker, Jerome – Urban Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Blacks, Bus Transportation, Lower Class Parents, Middle Class Parents
Radin, Norma – 1981
To better understand the role of wives in families in which fathers raise the children, data were analyzed from a previously conducted study of partial role reversals in two-parent families. The sample consisted almost exclusively of 59 white, middle-class families with a child 3 to 6 years of age. Data gathered in separate interviews with mothers…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Fathers, Middle Class Parents
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Radin, Norma; Goldsmith, Rena – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1985
In a follow-up study of paternal involvement in childrearing, it was found, as hypothesized in terms of role theory, that families in which fathers had been the principal caregiver showed least stability in child care arrangements. Also, sex differences and parental attitudes were indicative of varying amounts of paternal involvement in child…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Fathers, Middle Class Parents, Parent Attitudes
Kiely, Margaret C. – Canadian Counsellor, 1974
This article discusses a program in education and mental health set up for young mothers who would like to resume their studies but find inherent difficulties. Evaluation of the project's first year revealed that these women were capable of integrating their various life roles and had achieved a sense of competence. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: College Attendance, Higher Education, Mental Health Programs, Middle Class Parents
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DeMoss, Susan Elaine – NASSP Bulletin, 1996
Discusses a study that examined 11 parents' assessment of their involvement in their children's education. Except for two divorced mothers, the majority of participants consistently provided advocacy/support to their children throughout their entire school lives. Only one parent exercised real decision-making involvement in her child's school.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Middle Class Parents, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
Golin, Sanford – 1971
An elementary school Black Studies program was conducted in three black schools as a program of primary prevention. Lower class and lower middle class parents and caretakers of the school children were interviewed to determine the extent of community approval of the program. It was hypothesized that less approval would be observed among the lower…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Studies, Community Control, Elementary Schools
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DeMoss, Susan; Vaughn, Courtney – ERS Spectrum, 2000
Describes insights gleaned from informal conversations with 27 parents actively involved in their children's schooling. Stereotypes do not apply. Although wealthier white parents receive more encouragement to participate in decision making and school-related activities, they sometimes support working- class/minority causes and favor school…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Middle Class Parents, Minority Groups
Barber, Lucie W. – 1975
Sex role stereotyping by parents of male and female children was assessed by asking parents in 88 middle-class families to rate the importance of five broadly defined categories of attitudes they believed a 2-year-old should learn. All parents had at least one child 5 years old or younger. It was assumed that if sex role stereotyping was present,…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Family Characteristics, Middle Class Parents
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Bigner, Jerry J. – Home Economics Research Journal, 1977
Seventy-seven fathers of preschool-aged children enrolled in the Human Development Laboratories program at Colorado State University completed a questionnaire packet of background information, the Attitudes Toward Fathering Scale, and the Father-Child Activity Scale. Analyses of the responses indicated that the fathers' attitudes toward fathering…
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Fathers
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