Family background and educational outcomes

How does family background affect children's educational ...

The higher the social economic status of a family, the better schools their children attend (Wen 2006; Chen and Fang 2007; Li 2008; Wu 2013b).

How Family Background Influences Student Achievement

The politically inconvenient conclusion that family background explained more about a child's achievement than did school resources ran contrary to ...

The Link Between Family Background and Academic Success

Family income is also known to have an impact on children's academic outcomes. An increase in family income received through one of the largest ...

Family Background as a Factor of Achievement

For many minority and lower-income students, it has been shown that family backgrounds can significantly impact a student's scientific and mathematical ...

Family Background Has As Much Impact On Education Now As It ...

Researchers found that the gap between children from the poorest backgrounds and their more privileged peers accounted for half a grade ...

Students' Family Background Matters - American Enterprise Institute

Among its most controversial findings was that family background — not schools, funding, religion, or race — was the only characteristic that ...

Long-term Effects of Parents' Education on Children's Educational ...

Importantly, the effects of parental education were entirely indirect: higher levels of parental education led to higher levels of optimistic educational ...

Impact of family background on children's education unchanged in a ...

Previous research suggests that by GCSE year, the effect of family background on school performance is more than three times worse, accounting ...

Impact of Family Background on Educational Achievement

While family background certainly plays a vital role in shaping educational achievement through various material, cultural, and social influences.

This study investigates the relationship between family-related socio-economic and other factors like, parental education, amount of books at home, parental ...

Impact of family background on children's education unchanged in a ...

The study, by the University of York, looked at data from 92,000 individuals born between 1921 and 2011 and revealed that the achievement gap ...

Family Background, School-Age Trajectories of Activity Participation ...

Thus, even though family disadvantages may be barriers to a youth's participation in out-of-school activities, their links to academic achievement may be ...

The rising influence of family background on early school performance

However, we do find that the parents' earnings ranks became more strongly associated with their own (relative) educational attainment, suggesting that the ...

6. Measuring Family Background in International Studies of Education

Finally, family socioeconomic status tends to have a larger impact on educational attainment and achievement in the earlier stages of the student's life course ...

The Impact of Family Background on Educational Attainment in ...

Correlations between siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment, with parental education accounting for approximately ...

Mindset as a potential link between family background and high ...

A growing literature proposes that the relationship between family background and academic achievement is mediated in part by psychological ...

Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of ...

The Influence of Family Background on Educational Expectations

In addition, East Asian children's educational achievement has an important social meaning, as it brings honor to the family, a fulfillment of filial piety. ( ...

Family Background Characteristics and Student Achievement

Family Background Characteristics and Student Achievement: Does School Ethos Play a. Compensatory Role? Joacim Ramberg. Department of Special Education, ...

EJ1093068 - How Family Background Influences Student ... - ERIC

In this article, the author looks at four family variables that may influence student achievement: family education, family income, parents' criminal activity, ...