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Peer reviewedAlwin, Duane F.; Thornton, Arland – American Sociological Review, 1984
Compares the effects on high school achievement of family socioeconomic factors present during students' early childhood and during students' late adolescence. Results point to the potentially stronger role in cognitive development and school learning of early socioeconomic factors, except in the case of family size. (RDN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Family Characteristics
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Home Economics Education. – 1985
The 2-part student workbook for mainstreamed learning and mentally disabled high school students contains 12 units intended to provide supplementary instruction in the Contemporary Parenting Choices Curriculum in the home economics class. This unit, the second in the Child Care part of the workbook, focuses on understanding child growth and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Children, Cognitive Development
