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Parents Crucial To Child’s Education, More Than the School
The socio-economic background of a family not only affects the child’s educational attainment — it also affects the school’s effort.
Researcher Professor Gianni De Fraja, who is also the Head of Economics at the University of Leicester, said: “The main channel through which parental socio-economic background affects achievement is via effort.
“Parents from a more advantaged environment exert more effort, and this influences positively the educational attainment of their children.
“By the same token, the parents’ background also increases the school’s effort, which increases the school achievement. Why schools work harder where parents are from a more privileged background we do not know. It might be because middle class parents are more vocal in demanding that the school works hard.”
The study is based on the very simple observation that the educational achievement of a student is affected by the effort put in by those participating in the education process: the schools attended by the student, the student’s parents, and of course the students themselves. The researchers analysed the effort of these three groups as jointly determined: students respond to the effort exerted by their parents and their schools, and correspondingly schools also respond to the effort exerted by their students and their parents and parents to the effort exerted by their children and their children’s schools.
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