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Research Articles
The articles and links here are for research being conducted for the Honors In Action project. Please bear in mind that while some articles are very informative they are not scholarly and will not count towards our required number of articles.
College Readiness Begins in Middle School
This article examines how parents, school staff help students with their early educational panning.
This research focused on middle and early high school students from Chicago, Charleston, Denver, Los
Angeles, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
The study was made by researches of the ACT program. The findings suggest that there is a necessity for
parents and school personnel to direct students towards a college preparatory curriculum as early as
middle school. The study stresses the necessity of educational panning .
The Overpressured Student , R. Weissbourd
(…) “When it comes to academic achievement, many parents in upper- and middle-class
communities have gone overboard. (…) As an Atlantic Monthly article observed, “Millions of families
are now in a state of nervous collapse regarding college admissions,” and large
numbers of kids are in terror that if they don’t get into a high-profile college, their life is “ruined”(...)
Latino Parent Home-Based Practices That Bolster Student Academic Persistence
Home-based parental involvement influences children’s attitudes and beliefs about school culminating
in students’ intentions to persevere academically. This study addresses the common misperception that
Latino parents are not involved in their children’s formal education. An important implication of this
study is that parents can have an impact on students’ academic persistence even if they are not able to
attend school-based activities.
The Role of Higher Education in Social Mobility Robert H. Haveman, Timothy M. Smeeding
(…) Higher-income parents make enormous efforts to ensure their children's academic success, while
children of poor parents begin the "college education game" later and with fewer resources. Students
in poor and minority neighborhoods are less well prepared academically; ill prepared to select colleges,
apply for admission, and secure acceptance; and poorly informed about the cost of attending college
and the availability of needs-based financial aid.
Not Scholarly
Students add sabotage to college-entry arsenal By Jodi S. Cohen
In the competition to get into the most selective colleges, some students and their parents are resorting to a tasteless tactic: bashing other applicants.
The letters, mailed to college admissions offices, typically arrive without a signature. They say rival applicants cheated on exams or got suspended for underage drinking. Sometimes, they include an unflattering newspaper clipping or a sly suggestion to check out pictures on a student's Facebook page.
Ratting Out Your Kid’s Competition By LISA BELKIN
High Anxiety By KATE STONE LOMBARDI and MERRI ROSENBERG
The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting By Nancy Gibbs
College Visits and Helicopter Parents: A Bad Combination By Corey Stern
Parent Involvement in College Planning By Richard Hesel and Michael Bartini
“Helicopter parents” is today’s somewhat pejorative term for parents who are overly involved in their children’s lives and unwilling to let their children make independent decisions.
Causes and Implications of Parental Involvement in the Advising Process By Glenn Kepic
In the competition to get into the most selective colleges, some students and their parents are resorting to a tasteless tactic: bashing other applicants.
The letters, mailed to college admissions offices, typically arrive without a signature. They say rival applicants cheated on exams or got suspended for underage drinking. Sometimes, they include an unflattering newspaper clipping or a sly suggestion to check out pictures on a student's Facebook page.