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Alam, Shafiqul – Journal of Learning for Development, 2015
Community plays an important role in childhood education. This research has identified the community factors that affect learners' achievement through the use of case studies. Qualitative data were captured by semi-structured interview and data interpretation was underpinned by concepts derived from human capital and social capital theories. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Influence, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
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Francois, Samantha; Overstreet, Stacy; Cunningham, Michael – Youth & Society, 2012
Adolescents who live in low-income neighborhoods face numerous unique challenges. Examining their resilience in multiple contexts sheds light on what contributes to the diverse outcomes of these youth. The current study examines how adolescents' reports of structural and experiential neighborhood characteristics buffered the impact of exposure to…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Neighborhoods, Violence, Academic Achievement
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Porfeli, Erik; Wang, Chuang; Audette, Robert; McColl, Ann; Algozzine, Bob – Education and Urban Society, 2009
Education professionals and policy makers have been working to "close the achievement gap" for some time. Differences in school performance for children from diverse and different family backgrounds have been at the core of past and present social, political, and education reform initiatives and practices. Previous research suggests that…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Social Capital, Student Characteristics
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Schumaker, Paul D.; Getter, Russell W. – Journal of Education, 1977
It is argued in this paper that the structure of the political community may be at least as important as the structure of the school environment in shaping the educational aspirations of minority children. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Community Role
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Emory, Ronya; Caughy, Margaret; Harris, T. Robert; Franzini, Luisa – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
To examine how neighborhood characteristics influence academic achievement, data were drawn from a community survey of low-income neighborhoods and linked with data on performance on standardized testing for third-grade students attending elementary schools in those communities. Results of multilevel logistic regressions indicated that probability…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Standardized Tests
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Gigliotti, Richard J. – Journal of Black Studies, 1976
Suggests that stability level of an individual and the community in which he operates is directly related to a child's sense of control and consequently his achievement in school. Findings indicate that for whites, community stability is positively and significantly related to sense of control, with the inverse for blacks. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Students
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty is that neighbourhoods measured in available data…
Descriptors: Proximity, Foreign Countries, Neighborhoods, Outcomes of Education
Hare, Dwight – 1990
The use of multiple indicators of educational achievement is called for to replace a single measure of student achievement in order to identify the school context in which education occurs. School-level indicators have been identified, such as access to knowledge, press for achievement, and professional teaching conditions. These indicators are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Context Effect
Siu, Sau-Fong – Equity and Choice, 1992
Describes a study of how Chinese-American family and community behaviors, routines, values, and expectations affect the educational achievement of Chinese-American children. Finds that some traits, valuing effort over innate ability and parental involvement, do support academic achievement in association with certain social and economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture, Community Characteristics
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Shumow, Lee; Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Posner, Jill – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1999
Examined associations between neighborhood risk factors and low-income children's academic performance from third to fifth grade. Neighborhood risk, based on characteristics such as income, education level, female-headed households, and violent crime, was not associated with children's academic performance in third grade but negatively predicted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Community Characteristics, Community Influence