The relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of the early childhood education and care environment

M Manning, S Garvis, C Fleming… - Campbell Systematic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Campbell systematic review examines the current empirical evidence on the correlation
between teacher qualifications and the quality of the early childhood learning environments …

Social equity theory and racial‐ethnic achievement gaps

C McKown - Child development, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the U nited S tates, racial‐ethnic differences on tests of school readiness and academic
achievement continue. A complete understanding of the origins of racial‐ethnic achievement …

Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures

Z Parolin, EK Lee - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronovirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has prompted many school
districts to turn to distance or at-home learning. Studies are emerging on the negative effects …

The geography of racial/ethnic test score gaps

SF Reardon, D Kalogrides… - American Journal of …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …

Science achievement gaps begin very early, persist, and are largely explained by modifiable factors

PL Morgan, G Farkas, MM Hillemeier… - Educational …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the age of onset, over-time dynamics, and mechanisms underlying science
achievement gaps in US elementary and middle schools. To do so, we estimated multilevel …

Talking to children matters: Early language experience strengthens processing and builds vocabulary

A Weisleder, A Fernald - Psychological science, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Infants differ substantially in their rates of language growth, and slow growth predicts later
academic difficulties. In this study, we explored how the amount of speech directed to infants …

Getting under the hood: How and for whom does increasing course structure work?

SL Eddy, KA Hogan - CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2014 - Am Soc Cell Biol
At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at
the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained …

The new literacies of online research and comprehension: Rethinking the reading achievement gap

DJ Leu, E Forzani, C Rhoads, C Maykel… - Reading Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Is there an achievement gap for online reading ability based on income inequality that is
separate from the achievement gap in traditional, offline reading? This possibility was …

Reclassification patterns among Latino English learner students in bilingual, dual immersion, and English immersion classrooms

IM Umansky, SF Reardon - American Educational Research …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Schools are under increasing pressure to reclassify their English learner (EL) students to
“fluent English proficient” status as quickly as possible. This article examines timing to …

The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor

SF Reardon - Social stratification, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The socioeconomic status of a child's parents has always been one of the strongest
predictors of the child's academic achievement and educational attainment. The relationship …