{"id":3921,"date":"2013-01-18T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2013-01-17T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:03:19","slug":"college-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/01\/18\/college-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold the Check or Hold the Laude"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3949\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/01\/fafsa.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/01\/fafsa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could loans help with the cum laude?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heading off to college with a parent&#8217;s blank check in hand won&#8217;t help students earn\u00a0high marks, according to sociologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty2.ucmerced.edu\/lhamilton2\/index.html\">Laura Hamilton<\/a>. Hamilton&#8217;s study, published in the latest <em>Annual Review of Sociology<\/em>, finds that, regardless of the type of four-year institution they attend, students who receive greater financial contributions from their parents tend to earn a lower GPA along the way (even if they <em>are <\/em>more likely to complete their degree).<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton says the effect on grades is &#8220;modest&#8221;&#8212;&#8220;not enough to make your child flunk&#8221;&#8212;but nonetheless &#8220;surprising because everybody has always assumed that the more you give, the better your child does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EwYciVXR\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Hamilton found that the students with the lowest grades were those whose parents paid for them without discussing the students\u2019 responsibility for their education. Parents could minimize the negative effects, she said, by setting clear expectations about grades and progress toward graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s not bad to fund your children,\u201d [Hamilton] said. \u201cMy kids are little, but I plan to pay for them&#8212;after we talk about how much it costs, and what grades I expect them to achieve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading off to college with a parent&#8217;s blank check in hand won&#8217;t help students earn\u00a0high marks, according to sociologist\u00a0Laura Hamilton. Hamilton&#8217;s study, published in the latest Annual Review of Sociology, finds that, regardless of the type of four-year institution they attend, students who receive greater financial contributions from their parents tend to earn a lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":973,"featured_media":3949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[43,3827,78,4374],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sightings","tag-college","tag-funding","tag-higher-education","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/01\/fafsa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}