Using data collected from a large sample of high school students, the authors challenge
three widely held explanations for the superior school performance of Asian-American …

The school success of Asian Americans has attracted a great deal of attention from both the
media and the larger public as well as from researchers in education, developmental …

Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey and Lareau's concept of concerted
cultivation—the idea that educational and financial resources result in different cultural …

The review acknowledges that research on the family and its contribution to achievement in
ethnic minority children is important. Past research and theorizing suggest the need for new …

Early academic achievement has been shown to predict high school completion, but there
have been few studies of the predictors of early academic success focused on Latino …

We advocate an interactive approach to examining the role of culture and SES in explaining
Asian Americans' achievement. We use Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) 2002 baseline …

Objective. This study investigates the role of parenting styles and social capital (parental
involvement, intergenerational closure, expectation, and trust) in accounting for school …

This study explores the longitudinal association between academic achievement and social
acceptance across ethnic groups in a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N …

A large, nationally representative database of American elementary school students was
used to quantitatively assess the complex ways in which race intersects with social class …

This study examined the hypothesis that African-American adolescents' school achievement
is detrimentally influenced by their perception of a discriminatory “job ceiling” affecting their …