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Download full textKarther, Diane – 1996
The family's influence on children's learning accounts for 80 percent of variance in students' academic performance. The present study, framed by the concept of human development within ecological contexts as elaborated by Bronfenbrenner (1979), investigated literacy practices and views of parents with limited literacy skills who participated in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Literacy
Thomas, Adele – 1994
A study investigated the impact of a school-based family literacy program located in an urban, working-class Ontario, Canada neighborhood on parents enrolled with their toddlers. Subjects, 15 white female parents between the ages of 17.6 and 33 years who had not completed secondary education, were interviewed, wrote journals, and participated in…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, High Schools
