Parents’ Expectations and Student Achievement

November 11, 2013

UW-Madison education professor Bonnie Doren examines the relationship between parent expectations for their adolescents with disabilities, and the adolescents’ achievement of important school and post-school benchmarks. These include graduating from high school with a standard diploma, postschool employment, and enrolling in or completing postsecondary education. Doren found that parent expectations of adolescents with disabilities vary by family income and by the adolescent’s particular disability, ethnicity or race, and gender.

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