Valerie Polakow

School-Smart and Mother-Wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling

Valerie Polakow, Wendy Luttrell · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1998 · 158 citations

Educational Outcomes, Working-class Women, Education +17

Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America.

Valerie Polakow · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1993 · 118 citations

White Single Mothers, Public Welfare, Valerie Polakow +23

The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice

Beverly D. Epps, Valerie Polakow · The Journal of Negro Education · 2002 · 44 citations

Youth Law, School Violence, Sociology +15

Introduction to the Special Issue on Children's Rights and Voices in Research: Cross-National Perspectives

Beth Blue Swadener, Valerie Polakow · Early Education and Development · 2011 · 17 citations

Education, Law, Cross-national Perspectives +21

Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America.

Lorraine Mayfield-Brown, Valerie Polakow · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1994 · 17 citations

Social Inequality, Child Well-being, Single Mothers +12