Family Life and School Achievement Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1984
Description:
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic back-ground, poorly educated parents-- these are he usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clarkcontends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children.
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