Low-Income Parents: How Do Working Conditions Affect Their Opportunity to Help School-Age Children At Risk?

By S. Heymann, A. Earle. 2000

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education

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1. H. Kreider
2. Anna Haley-Lock
3. Linn Posey-Maddox
4. N. Bowen
5. E. Dearing
6. H. Weiss
7. Jung‐Sook Lee
8. R. McNeal

Citations in the corpus

• Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children (2006, background): “First, some parents of children with low achievement may encounter barriers to their involvement (Heymann & Earle, 2000; Hill & Taylor, 2004; Pena, 2000), and, second, the positive influence of parent involvement on children’s educational performance may be weaker in some families (Desimone, 1999;…”
• Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education (2003, background): “One study found that lack of parental work leave and inflexible work schedules limited low-income mothers’ opportunities to help their academically at-risk children (Heymann & Earle, 2000).”
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Understanding Parent Engagement in the Contexts of Work, Family, and Public Schooling (2020, background): “…recognized in the parent involvement literature as influential factors in their engagement in their children’s education, only a few studies have engaged in an in-depth exploration of how parents’ employment affects their engagement (Heymann & Earle, 2000; Ji & Koblinsky, 2009; Weiss et al., 2003).”
• The impact of schooling on academic achievement: Evidence from homeschooled and traditionally schooled students. (2011, background): “Following the recent trend of examining the positive impact parental involvement plays on children’s educational success (Feuerstein, 2001; Heymann & Earle, 2000; Hill & Craft, 2003; Hill & Taylor, 2004; Lee & Bowen, 2006), Barwegen et al. (2004) proposed that the elevated test scores of…”