How does family background affect children’s educational achievement? Evidence from Contemporary China
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How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
A key goal of education is to ensure that every student has a chance to excel, both in school and in life. Increasingly, children’s success in school determines their success as adults, determining whether and where they go to college, what professions they enter and how much they can earn. School performance in primary and secondary school does not depend on a student’s mental and physical abi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chinese Sociology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2198-2635
DOI: 10.1186/s40711-018-0083-8