Much research has tried to parse the school's contribution to children's learning apart from
the family's and the family's contribution apart from the school's as though they were discrete …

How do school processes affect children and their families? Alexander and Entwisle
(chapter 5, this volume) adopt a useful framework for answering this question. They pose …

The school, the family, and the neighbourhood they grow up in are all important to how
children perform academically. But which has most influence? Does a supportive family …

As indicated by the theme of this volume, social scientists increasingly have appreciated the
pivotal role that agents outside the school–more specifically, family and community–play in …

Family income may have a direct or indirect impact on children's academic outcomes. 3,000
schools, nearly 600,000 students, and thousands of teachers, and produced by a team led …

Scholarly interest in parental involvement was sparked in the late 1960s, when the seminal
Coleman report (Coleman et al. 1966) found family social background to be the most …

Sociologists' attention to schools, to families, and to communities has changed dramatically
since 1950. Then, most studies of families, of schools, or of communities were conducted as …

Everywhere there is pressure for children to learn more in school. The new economy
demands that young people leave school with strong abilities to read, write, calculate and …

Most people believe that a child's family is the most important determinant of his or her life
outcomes—not just family-related outcomes like marriage but also achievement outcomes …

Schools are charged with many tasks: the preservation of order through the sociaUzation of
children, the maintenance of a productive labor force, the promotion of tolerance, the …