The Influences of Parental Expectations on Children\u27s Academic Achievements: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and China

Parenting is very important to children, and it directly or indirectly influences children\u27s outcomes in schools. Parents express passions and strong desires to help their children to succeed regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, and they are highly interested in their children\u27s education in school. This paper is concerned with parental expectations for school-aged children in the United States and China under the influences of historical, cultural and social context. I will comprehensively compare relevant literature parts in both America and China, determining the distinctions in terms of various parenting patterns. Research about parental expectations in the two countries will help me to better understand the differences of parental involvement in education and understand some problems and phenomena in current society. The methodology is based on theoretical/conceptual literature, and it is not an empirical study