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Summary:

"It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, God, Grades, and Graduation (GGG) offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. GGG introduces readers to a childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups and accounts for Americans' deep relationship with God: religious restraint. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, GGG offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Living for God
• Remarkable Report Cards
• A Domino Effect
• God's Guardrails
• Unexpected Destinations
• The Road Less Taken
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Horwitz, Ilana M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

God, grades and graduation: religion's surprising impact on academic success [by Horwitz, I.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: God, grades & graduation [by Horwitz, I.M.] (New York : Oxford University Press, [2022] — ISBN 9780197534144; LCCN 2021037314)

Subjects:

Church and education — United States

Academic achievement — United States

Child rearing — Religious aspects

Parenting — Religious aspects

Families — Religious aspects

Success

Church and education

Academic achievement

Child rearing

Parenting

Families

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 240 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC111 .H6 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780197534175 (electronic book)
0197534171 (electronic book)
9780197534151 (electronic book)
0197534155 (electronic book)
0197534163
9780197534168 (electronic bk.)
9780197534144 [Invalid]
0197534147 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021037315

OCLC Numbers:

1262797518