Family educational involvement: Who can afford it and What does it afford?

Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood: Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-39

  Weiss, Heather B ^a   Dearing, Eric ^b   Mayer, Ellen ^a   Kreider, Holly ^a   McCartney, Kathleen ^c  

^a Harvard Family Research Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410615558     Document Type: Chapter

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