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Benner, Aprile D.; Crosnoe, Robert – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
This study attempted to untangle how two dimensions of school racial/ethnic composition--racial/ethnic diversity of the student body and racial/ethnic matching between children and their peers--were related to socioemotional and academic development after the transition into elementary school. Analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Factors, Academic Achievement, Young Children
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Okagaki, Lynn; Frensch, Peter A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
Studied relations between parenting and school performance of fourth and fifth graders in 75 Asian-American, 109 Latino, and 91 European-American families. Ethnic differences emerged in parents' expectations for education attainment and grades, childrearing beliefs, perceptions of parental efficacy, and in relations between these beliefs and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences