Family and School Capital: Towards a Context Theory of Students’ School Outcomes

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One of the persistent challenges confronting societies is how to reduce inequalities in the educational and occupational attainment of students from different socio-economic, ethnic and race group backgrounds. This work examines such educational problems. A context theory of students’ school outcomes is then developed from an analysis of international investigations of family and school influences,