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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 families in 11 cultural groups in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines,…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Socioeconomic Status
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Bleak, Ken; Hogue, Lindsey; Abernathy, Tammy; Oikonomidoy, Eleni – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2019
This presentation seeks to explore the various complexities of racial and ethnic disproportionality in special education. We discuss the many competing and often contradictory findings in the current literature (Dever et al.,2016; Morgan et al., 2015; Sullivan, 2011; Voulgarides & Thorius, 2017). We briefly discuss the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Bias, Ethnicity
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Paula, Liga; Priževoite, Ilze – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
Professionals who are respected in the wider community can influence public opinion and shape societal value system. While in a number of European countries teaching profession is popular and respected, in many other including Latvia its prestige is rather low. There is an ongoing debate in Latvia how to raise it; therefore, the aim of this…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy
Ruiz Soto, Ariel G.; Selee, Andrew – Migration Policy Institute, 2019
Education levels are on the rise among Mexican immigrants, who now comprise the fourth largest group of college-educated immigrants in the United States, after those from India, China, and the Philippines. The number of Mexican immigrants with a bachelor's degree or higher grew from 269,000 in 2000 to 678,000 in 2017--an increase that is primarily…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Immigrants, College Graduates, Age
Afterschool Alliance, 2019
Vibrant social connections and robust community involvement are part of what makes a strong America. Yet, among our nation's young people, there are relatively low levels of community engagement. Research shows that service learning is an established method to bring youth closer to their communities while also promoting positive youth development…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Youth Programs, Service Learning, Barriers
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; Woessmann, Ludger – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational achievement gaps by socio-economic status (SES). Using intertemporally linked assessments from NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA, we trace the achievement of U.S. student cohorts born between 1954 and 2001. Achievement gaps…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Influences
Udoh, Michael Sebastian – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine if faculty trust in the principal mediates the impact of initiating structure and consideration on student achievement. Using social capital theory, the study focused on principals-teachers' relationships built on trust as a mediator of this impact since good schools tend to function well as a system of…
Descriptors: Principals, Social Capital, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Leadership Responsibility
Lee, Selene Sunmin – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Measuring socioeconomic status (SES) is very important in educational research, as researchers often use this information to contextualize the results of an assessment or to control for SES when analyzing the relationship between academic achievement and other variables. However, any cross-country comparisons using SES data from international…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Bartrug, Brooke Renee' – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The necessity and lack of reading proficiency has been researched thoroughly. Many administrators, along with educators, are constantly looking for a means to increase reading proficiency. Districts nationwide are spending money on professional development to increase reading proficiency. The purpose of this study was to examine data in search of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Achievement, Correlation, Grade 8
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Michelle F. Wright; Sebastian Wachs – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in social status insecurity and self-reported relational and overt aggression based on the ethnic context of the schools, and how ethnic context moderates the associations between social status insecurity and self-reported relational and overt aggression. Participants were 405 Latinx…
Descriptors: Racial Composition, Ethnicity, Social Status, Aggression
Kimberly S. Bracken – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this intensive case study was to identify individual attributes, family and community factors, and effective classroom strategies and supports that foster resiliency for a gifted and talented adolescent female from poverty who is academically successful. This study adds value to literature on this marginalized group in public school…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Public Schools, Resilience (Psychology)
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M. Paula Daneri; Clancy Blair; Laura J. Kuhn – Grantee Submission, 2019
This article examined longitudinal relations among socioeconomic risk, maternal language input, child vocabulary, and child executive function in a large sample (N =1,009) recruited for a prospective longitudinal study. Two measures of maternal language input derived from a parent- child picture book task, vocabulary diversity and language…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Risk, Mothers
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M. Paula Daneri; Clancy Blair; Laura J. Kuhn; Lynne Vernon-Feagans; Mark Greenberg; Martha Cox; Peg Burchinal; Michael Willoughby; Patricia Garrett-Peters; Roger Mills-Koonce – Child Development, 2019
This article examined longitudinal relations among socioeconomic risk, maternal language input, child vocabulary, and child executive function (EF) in a large sample (N = 1,009) recruited for a prospective longitudinal study. Two measures of maternal language input derived from a parent-child picture book task, vocabulary diversity (VOCD), and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Risk, Mothers
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Wallace, Lacey N.; Roche, Michael J. – Journal of Drug Education, 2018
In this study, we examined how the number of friends and leadership among peers related to e-cigarette use and beliefs about the social consequences of use among college students. Data were collected via web survey from 175 university students in 2016. Regression techniques were used to analyze responses. Neither number of friends nor role in a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Peer Influence, Role
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Jury, Mickaël; Bruno, Alisée; Darnon, Céline – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Background: Previous research has shown that, when succeeding in higher education, first-generation (FG) students endorse more performance-avoidance goals (i.e., the fear of performing poorly) than continuing-generation (CG) students. Aims: In this study, individual mobility is examined as a predictor of performance-avoidance goal endorsement. It…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Social Mobility, Social Status, Goal Orientation
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