Interventions targeting parental involvement with the school and computer-assisted learning to enhance dyslexic students’ reading comprehension Education has long been recognised as an indispensable part of life, which serves as a platform to convey general knowledge, and develops critical skills for children to achieve their best potential. Given its value to today’s society, there has since been a leap forward in research to identify why the educational system still remains in a state of hiatus
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Article Summary Student’s Name University Affiliation Parental Involvement: Impact on a Child’s Education Providing for a family is a challenging task in today’s world. Parents work long hours to pay bills and ensure that their children live a comfortable life. As a result, most parents return home tired and with little energy or time to follow up on their children’s educational progress. Some parents delegate all educational responsibilities to teachers. However
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Students at Risk – An American Epidemic EDU 490: Interdisciplinary Capstone Shmeka L. Williams June 27, 2009 Abstract Socioeconomic status is a very real problem for children in American society. It affects many areas of their lives, but most importantly, it affects their education. For this reason, it is imperative that parents, teachers, administrators, and communities ban together to ensure that at-risk students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are given
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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences July 2012, Vol. 2, No. 7 ISSN: 2222-6990 The Effects of Parental Socio-Economic Status on Academic Performance of Students in Selected Schools in Edu Lga of Kwara State Nigeria Femi Ogunshola, PhD. Department of Industrial and Technological Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria Email: femiogunsola@yahoo.com. A.M. Adewale Department of Biology, School of Natural and Applied Science, Alvan Federal College
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involved or not community in the community school in the area where you live? At my current school some of the effects are socioeconomic, geographic, features of the classroom, ethnicity, and community and parent involvement. The overall environment does have an effect on the performance of each individual student. The community that I am a teacher is in Orlando, Florida. The community is Pine Hills which is a suburban area which consist of several subdivision and apartments. The geographic
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Race and Poverty: Factors of the African American Achievement Gap Abstract The proposed action research study will pinpoint factors that contribute to the African American academic achievement gap. These factors impact not only the lives of families in the African American community but continues a vicious cycle of generations of poverty that hinders our country’s ability to effectively compete economically and also threatens America’s capacity to provide social equality for all. The
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such as parental involvement (Ho & Williams, 2008; McNeal, 2009; Jose et al., 2010;). Students engage better in school when parents play a positive role in their learning process (Jackson, 2010; 2011; Green et al., 2012). Students are more likely to make a personal commitment to engage in rigorous learning when they know parents care about how well they do (Kilgore, Snyder & Lentz, 2008; Keyes, 2010). However, despite the crucial role of parents, studies in relation to their involvement remain
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learning, tend to develop better social & academic skills and the amount of time also makes a difference, and working parents are less involved due to job responsibilities. The author argues that if families are involved in their child’s early development this will allow any child to benefit in areas such as; values, language, literacy, and social-emotional domains. This chapter was useful since it provides a clear understanding to the benefits of family involvement in the early childhood settings/ environments
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The Impact of Internet Access at Home and/or School on Students’ Academic Performance Abstract: The paper examines the effects of Internet access at school and/or at home on students’ academic performance in urban areas utilizing a Brazilian unique dataset collected by the governmental agency “Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira” (National Institute of Educational Research Anísio Teixeira) or INEP for years 2007 and 2009. Using the propensity scores matching
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THE EFFECT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT A Thesis by Jennifer Barry Bachelor of Arts, Wichita State University, 2005 Submitted to the Department of Sociology And the faculty of the Graduate School of Wichita State University in partial fulfillment of The requirements for the degree of Master of Arts December 2006 THE EFFECT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT I have examined the final copy of this thesis for form and content, and recommend that
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