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Does Parenting Contribute to Achievement Gaps?

November 21, 2006

Ronald Ferguson faculty director, Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard

Jelani Mandara assistant professor, Northwestern

Richard Murnane professor, education, HGSE

Ronald Ferguson and Jelani Mandara address evidence concerning ways that parenting practices may contribute to black-white achievement gaps. The achievement gaps among children of college educated parents receives special emphasis. Presenters propose ways that parenting strategies need to complement school improvement and other approaches to narrowing racial gaps in academic performance.

Richard Murnane, Thompson Professor of Education and Society, moderates. This forum is offered in collaboration with the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.

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Topics: Culture & Identity | Education

Tags: Achievement Gap | Asian | homework | parenting strategies | socioeconomic class | white | African American | Economics | Race

Presented By WGBH and Harvard Graduate School of Education:

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Publisher: Free Press (1996)

Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

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Publisher: Princeton University Press (2005)

Binding: Paperback, 192 pages

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Publisher: Harvard University Press (1991)

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