This book is intended for a one-semester or one-term course in educational research. It is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and …
When do children become unequal in reading and math skills? Some research claims that inequality grows mainly before school begins. Some research claims that schools cause …
KL Alexander, DR Entwisle… - American sociological …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior research has demonstrated that summer learning rooted in family and community influences widens the achievement gap across social lines, while schooling offsets those …
JS Kim, DM Quinn - Review of Educational Research, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This meta-analysis reviewed research on summer reading interventions conducted in the United States and Canada from 1998 to 2011. The synthesis included 41 classroom-and …
AR Odden, LO Picus - A policy perspective, 2008 - opac.vimaru.edu.vn
Public school financing in the United States is a big business; it involved over $300 billion, 47 million children, and nearly 5 million teachers, administrators, and staff in 1999. School …
KL Alexander, DR Entwisle… - New directions for youth …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
There is perhaps no more pressing issue in school policy today than the achievement gap across social lines. Achievement differences between well‐to‐do children and poor children …
The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus …
JS Kim, TG White - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in …