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University of Pennsylvania Scholarly Commons Gansu Survey of Ch ldren and Fam lies Papers Gansu Survey of Ch ldren and Fam lies 1-1-2011 Influence of Home Environment on Children’s Schooling : From Teacher’s Perspective Yuping Zhang Lehig h University Suggested Citation: Yuping, Z. (2011). Influence of Home Environment on Children s Schooling : From Teacher s Persp ective (Working Paper). Gansu Survey of Ch ldren and Fam lies. Th s paper s posted at ScholarlyCommons. /gansu_papers/21 For more information, please contact repository@pobox .. Influence of Home Environment on Children’s Schooling : From Teacher’s Perspective Abstract Previous research in educational strat fication has revealed that one of the mechan sms a ch ld’s fam ly background may affect school outcomes s through its influence on teacher-student relationships at school. Going beyond the conventional modeling of using only measures of the fam ly ’s socioeconomic situation, th s article incorporate the teachers’ perspectives of the importance of the ch ldren’s fam ly background into the examination of teachers’ evaluations of ch ldren’s learning capacity and their expectations for the ch ldren’s future school attainment, using a unique dataset from rural Gansu in northwest China. The analys s results reveal that teachers’ perceptions of the importance of ch ldren’s fam ly background are closely assoc ated with teachers’ evaluations and educational expectations of ch ldren, beyond ch ldren’s academic achievement and their fam ly ’s actual socioeconomic situations; and teachers’ expectations at early time point help to predict ch ldren’s later school pers stence. The findings point to the importance of bringing teachers’ subjective perceptions into educational research, and the increasing importance of examini