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Title: The Changing American Family and Student Achievement Trends
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1. Berends, Mark
Grissmer, David W.
Kirby, Sheila Nataraj
Williamson, Stephanie
The Changing American Family and Student Achievement Trends
Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization 12 (1999): 67-101.
Also: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780762302567
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: JAI Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Divorce; Education, Secondary; Family Characteristics; High School Students; Marriage; Minority Groups; Schooling; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT

Data from the 1980 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth & the 1988 National Educational Longitudinal Study were analyzed to determine how family characteristics influenced secondary student achievement, 1970-1990. It was reported that (1) families during the 1970s & 1980s were better able to provide support for educational achievement than during the 1950s & 1960s. (2) Minority families in 1990 were more supportive of educational achievement than those in 1970. (3) Minority students made significant gains in test scores, 1970- 1990. It is concluded that Anglo American students' failure to make similar gains in achievement & the emergence of microlevel alterations to education opportunity in the US require additional study.
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Berends, Mark, David W. Grissmer, Sheila Nataraj Kirby and Stephanie Williamson. "The Changing American Family and Student Achievement Trends." Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization 12 (1999): 67-101.