How Does Parental Education Affect Academic Achievement

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Name : Joanna .Xu Topic : Family Focusing Question: How does the Parental Educational Attainment affect the Children Academic Achievement ? The new semester is coming, student A and B are preparing to attend the same university. They are considered as the same higher education. The parents of Student A didn’t attend college, They are not sure how to pack to help their child ready for school. In their family, Student A is the only and the first person attending college, His parents have no experience and don’t know how to help their child.In the other aspect, student B’s parents have graduated from college. They know what kinds of things are their child needed, not only the clothes, toiletries but also the computer, phone cards.Therefore…show more content…
The same time, The level of parental education will affect parenting style which, in turn, affects children's academic success.That ’s why I want to discuss this topic, to research something between parents and their children. And round me, there are many families have one (father or mother ) or don't have high education levels of parents. however, in some families, their father and mother all have high- level education. When I talk with these three different types families, I can feel the difference from their children clearly. Like the children who from low- level education family, they are shy and no plan for their future. In the other hands, the children who have the high education parents, they are calm and have many ideas about their future life. So, the question is how does the parental educational attainment and affect the children academic…show more content…
Although there are subtle differences between regions and countries (mothers in China and the United States have just the opposite effect on children's academic performance), the general situation is similar to the impact of parental education on children development. Generally speaking, highly educated parents will have better jobs and thus a higher economic status. They will be able to provide their children with better learning conditions. They also have a broader perspective to plan future development of their children and help their children set their goals. They can use their own experience to teach their children and to help their children to learn the difficulties they encounter, just like the parents of student B in the story I mentioned at the outset.However, some of the lower educational parents also want their children to have higher and higher education, but they don’t have enough ability to help them, these children have to overcome many difficulties by themselves, that are very hard.And we all know parents as the first teacher of children, they not only influence the children’s score, also the mind of them. Therefore, I learn something from this project that is the higher parental educational attainment are good for children academic achievement.During the process of doing a research
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