1. The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status on Education Conrad Tyler Blackburn

3. Indicator of parents’ education, occupation, and family income

4. Ormrod’s definition includes “related factors”

5. SES is very broad.

8. Stats show higher levels of parental involvement and academic resources with higher SES families.

9. Huge literacy gap between high and low SES students.

10. By age 3 children of high SES parents speak about 1,100 words.

12. Reasons: Words spoken by parents, 487-178. And encouragement vs. discouragement, 6.25:1 encouragements for high SES vs. 2.6:1 discouragents for low SES

15. Student-teacher relationship especially important at early ages.

16. Teachers do not always give all students an equal chance.

19. Those of higher SES tend to try to avoid those of low SES.

20. This creates tension between the two groups from kindergarten and beyond.

21. Teachers tend to favor students of high SES.