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Does Parental Involvement Change after Schools Assign Students an IEP?
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Kirksey, J. Jacob; Gottfried, Michael A.; Freeman, Jennifer A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Researchers suggest that parental involvement is important for parents of students with disabilities. While some research has examined parental involvement in the special education process, no research has investigated how general forms of parental involvement changes once a child begins to receive special education services. We consider various…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Parent School Relationship
Living with a Grandparent and Parent in Early Childhood: Associations with School Readiness and Differences by Demographic Characteristics
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Pilkauskas, Natasha V. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite the increasing prevalence of 3-generation family households (grandparent, parent, child), relatively little research has studied these households during early childhood. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort ("N" = ~6,550), this study investigated the associations between…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Grandparents, Parents, Longitudinal Studies
Academic Achievements of Children in Immigrant Families
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Han, Wen-Jui – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
Utilizing data on approximately 16,000 children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten Cohort and a rich set of mediating factors on 16 immigrant groups, this paper examined the associations between children's immigrant generation status and their academic performance. The changes in academic achievements during kindergarten and…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten