Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education

By H. Weiss, Ellen R. Mayer, H. Kreider, Margaret Vaughan, E. Dearing, R. Hencke, Kristina C. Pinto. 2003

170 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/94619dacbe532bd80e92e8fb503401237831701b

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Education

Citations in the corpus

Family-School Connectedness and Children's Early Social Development (2012, background): “However, unemployed mothers not currently looking for work have the lowest levels of involvement (Weiss et al., 2003).”
Joining the Conversation about Educating Our Poorest Children: Emerging Leadership Roles for School Counselors in High-Poverty Schools (2007, background): “As a result of these multiple stressors, lowincome parents suffer from a greater susceptibility to marital conflict and to debilitating stress and depression (Grolnick, Benjet, Kurowski, & Apostoleris, 1997; Weiss et al., 2003).”
Parents' Educational Involvement: A Developmental Ecology Perspective (2006, background): “Of particular relevance to this discussion is a study (Weiss et al., 2003) that examined how individuals use the workplace as a resource for developing parenting knowledge and school involvement.”
Parent Involvement and Mathematics Achievement: Contrast Across Racial and Ethnic Groups (2005, background): “Two recent studies, one on migrant families (López et al., 2001) and another on low-income working mothers (Weiss et al., 2003), call for a restructuring of parent education programs that apply traditional practices of parent involvement.”
Why Do Parents Become Involved? Research Findings and Implications (2005, background): “Time, energy, knowledge, and skills may be limited also by disparities in physical and mental health often associated with SES (e.g., greater susceptibility to debilitating stress and depression among lower-SES families: Grolnick et al., 1997, 2000; Kohl et al., 2002; Weiss et al., 2003).”
Latino Parents' Motivations for Involvement in Their Children's Schooling: An Exploratory Study (2011, background): “…with evidence that many families’ participation in school-based events, especially low-income families, is often dependent on their ability to conform their schedules and resources to school-imposed constraints (Garcia Coll et al., 2002; HooverDempsey et al., 1995; Pena, 2000; Weiss et al., 2003).”