What Low-Income Parents Want from Schools: A Different View of Aspirations.

Brantlinger, Ellen

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ERIC Number: EJ330723

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Publication Date: 1985

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What Low-Income Parents Want from Schools: A Different View of Aspirations.

Brantlinger, Ellen

Interchange, v16 n4 p14-28 Win 1985

This investigation attempted to have parents express what they wanted children to get out of school and what they perceived to be the purpose of education as part of a study of low-income parents perceptions of the impact of social class on schooling. Thirty-five subjects from 30 households were interviewed. (MT)

Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Elementary Secondary Education, Lower Class Parents, Parent Aspiration, Parent Attitudes, Relevance (Education), Social Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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