Academic achievement trajectories of adolescents from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families in the United States

Educational Review

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 226-244

  Jeong, Yu Jin ^a,b   Acock, Alan C ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Academic achievement trajectories; Adolescents; Ethnicity; Family capital; Immigrant families

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893968203     PISSN: 00131911     EISSN: 14653397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2013.769936     Document Type: Article

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