CHILDREN'S EDUCATION

“Parents' Management of Their Children's Education within the Home, at School, and in the Community: An Examination of African-American Families Living in Poverty”

As a teacher, I was able to know and teach some very diverse children, including those from the African American Families living below the poverty line, at a poor urban school. The poorest student I knew was in the 7th grade, and on the top of her class. She knew her dream well, and wanted to be a doctor. I learned that she lost her father at an adolescent age after meeting her mother during a teachers' family ...