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The Unique Contribution of Home Literacy Environment to Differences in Early Literacy Skills * - Early Child Developmen
The psychometric utility of a home literacy environment measure is evaluated and its unique contribution to predicting literacy skills is examined. Th...
The School Entry Gap: Socioeconomic, Family, and Health Factors Associated With Children's School Readiness to Learn -
Notwithstanding the constant debate in the scientific and policy literature on the precise meaning of school readiness, research consistently demonstr...
THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD AND THE LEARNING PROCESS.
ED012721 - THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD AND THE LEARNING PROCESS.
MIT Press Journals - Review of Economics and Statistics - Abstract
In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between white and black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier studies, the black-white test score gap among incoming kindergartners disappears when we control for a small number of covariates. Real gains by black children in recent cohorts appear to play an important role in explaining the differences between our findings and earlier research. The availability of better covariates also contributes. Over the first two years of school, however, blacks lose substantial ground relative to other races. There is suggestive evidence that differences in school quality may be an important part of the explanation. None of the other hypotheses we test to explain why blacks are losing ground receive any empirical backing.
JSTOR: The Future of Children, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 139-168
The authors describe various parenting behaviors, such as nurturance, discipline, teaching, and language use, and explain how researchers measure them. They note racial and ethnic variations in several behaviors. Most striking are differences in language use. Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young children than do white mothers and are less likely to read to them daily. They also note some differences in harshness. When researchers measuring school readiness gaps control for parenting differences, the racial and ethnic gaps narrow by 25-50 percent. And it is possible to alter parenting behavior to improve readiness. The authors examine programs that serve poor families--and thus disproportionately serve minority families--and find that home- and center-based programs with a parenting component improve parental nurturance and discipline. Programs that target families with children with behavior problems improve parents' skills in dealing with such children. And certain f
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