Educational Attainment And Parental Support

dimensions, were consistent with other studies in relation to the poor educational attainment and difficulties at school associated

The social situation i.e. where and how they live, for example, if a child is brought up in poverty and or other related problems such as poor housing a child’s educational success can be affected as there is little money available or facilities for the child to access so that they can support their learning out of an educational environment, there is often little parental support. The lack of success can often be due to problems involving language and communication skills. The

Chennakrishnan.p. A Study on School Drop-Out in rural settings in Tamilnadu with special reference to Vellore District Ph.D(Economics) Thiruvalluvar University Vellore-632115 Tamil Nadu.

At Penn, the undergraduate program that I would apply to would be the College of Arts and Sciences, which houses just about all of my known academic interest: Physics, Philosophy, Anthropology, and the Performing Arts. I developed a slight interest in Physics in middle which really solidified during my Advanced Physics class junior year. I found the class to be engaging, complex, and something that I was able to grasp very intuitively. The class inspired me to experiment around and research with concepts both in and outside the classroom. I found myself investigation more in our hands-on experiments in class and exploring other concepts, such as the Magnus effect and String theory, which we do not cover in the course.

In 1994, two hundred million people own a gun privately, but today its between two hundred seventy and three hundred million people own guns. There have been more than ten firearms deaths per 100,000 people a year. "In 90% of gun crimes, the firearms has changed at least once since the original sale" (Bennet, 3). The topic of gun control can prevent school shootings have a history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic.

The article Reflections on “Family Structure and Child Well-Being: Economic Resources vs. Parental Socialization” analyzed importance of two correlations of parental resources, time and money in family structures and the association of the children’s outcomes in academics and socio-emotional development. The Family structures that were analyzed were as married-parent, stepparent, cohabiting parent, divorced-mother and never-married mother families, which the results showed that economic disadvantage between cohabiting parents and single parent comparing with married parent families. Also, the lack of economic resources caused more disadvantages in non-traditional family structures t than parenting comparing with married parent families. (Thomson 2012).

Students abilities strongly correlate with the family’s socioeconomic status i.e. it depends on a combination of variables, including occupation, education, income, wealth, and place of residence. The statement mentions that children whose parents have the good educational qualification and income, can have the good impact on child's performance. Above average

Success is subjective. Many people view success as having wealth and material goods, but in the case of Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore, success exceeding what was expected of him as a young black male growing up in the city. Moore discusses the many similarities and differences between himself and a man with whom he shares his name, but who is incarcerated. His book makes evident the many factors contributing and counteracting the success of the two men. The author Wes Moore was more traditionally successful than the incarcerated Wes Moore because of the role his mother played in his life. The author’s mother stepped up when his father died, but when the other Wes Moore’s father left, his mother did not take the necessary actions to ensure he would have a successful life, and the incarcerated Wes Moore’s mother did not.

The level of education that a student’s parents have strongly affects the level of education that their children receive. Eric F. Dubow describes this issue in his article, “Long-term Effects of Parents’ Education on Children’s Educational and Occupational Success: Mediation by Family Interactions, Child Aggression, and Teenage Aspirations”. In his article, he explains the correlation between the educational level of the parent and the resulting educational success. He writes, “Parents’ educational level when the

Majority of the students education depends on their situation at home. It also falls on the parental educational levels more often students receive an higher education when parents have gone to college, or only receiving a high school diploma their children will either drop out or get a further education. There are low-income children who are willing to get receive all the opportunities they can get, others are willing to give up which leads to achievement gap (Brown, 2009). According to Brown, low-income children faces challenges at school and endurance in response to those challenges matters to their educational path. Research considered early learning environment (Brown, 2009) and skill gaps in expressive language (West, 2007) is involved

The Renaissance was something that changed the European culture. Renaissance is French for the word; rebirth (Crossroads and Cultures pg. 499). It could be used in a sense that people are starting to revive after the Black Death. The Renaissance period began a century after the Black Death. It changed many countries involved in the Black Death when it occurred.

The explanation for the achievement that I find the most compelling is parental socioeconomic status. This means that a Childs educational aptitude can be effected by things such as parent’s education, income and wealth. If a child has parents that did not make much money and never went to college, that child is statistically more likely to follow the same path. On page 222 of Race and racisms a critical approach written by TANYA MARIA GOLASH-BOZA, the author mentions a study done in 1992. The study results state that “over half of young people with family who had an income in the top twenty-five present earned a college degree. While families who had an income in the low twenty-five present only seven percent earned a degree.” This explanation

The journal article “Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement “, is an invaluable new assessment conducted by Narayan Sastry and Anne R. Pebley. This article advances scientific knowledge because the previous studies done on the topic of the socioeconomic impact on a child’s growth are very dated, most of them from 1990 or earlier. Some of the updated studies provided in the article are dated as recently as 2007, giving the most current information available. This is important considering the topic of socioeconomics, which can change dramatically over a short period of time. Neighborhoods can develop or degrade very quickly depending on social, economic or natural occurrences, and so should be observed

However social class is not the only factor influencing educational achievement; Girls achieve higher grades than boys in Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) and GCSE’s (Mitsos and Browne, 1998), in 2010 to 2011 54.3 per cent of black pupils achieved five or more A* to C grades at GCSE compared to 58 per cent of white pupils and 61.8 per cent of Asian pupils (Attew, 2012). Therefore educational achievement is also affected by gender and ethnicity.

Education is a quality in which all learning should be given under unconditional pretenses. The opportunity to be privileged with higher learning and creative diversities places an extraordinary value in which all children should achieve. However, when economic and ethnic demographics supersedes integrity, equality, fairness, and entailing security for all students. The modern issues of the urban education confronts our society with alarming facts that students are failing not only under the umbrella of the schools but it stunts their ability to see themselves successful in their future. Varying economic statuses can significantly impact the dynamic between students and teachers, and may detract from the learning environment. Economic status affects how students interact with one another, learn concepts, develop intellectually and relate to authority figures of urban educations. Many economic factors converge to create this vicious cycle of urban educational decline, and the downward spiral of solutions due to the lack of funding.