ABSTRACT
Studies such as those by Annette Lareau (1987) have emphasized the significance of parental involvement for giving an educational advantage to children in school. Her study finds that middle-class parents are active in their children’s school and schooling. They monitor their children’s progress in school to ensure that the kinds of educational opportunities needed are available to their children. Parents whose children attend a school with a population that is predominantly working class are not involved in the same way. Lareau’s claim is that it is the difference in the parents’ ability to fuse their children’s cultural knowledge with that of the school that differentiates the educational outcomes for their children.
