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Family–school relationships in immigrant children’s well-being: the intersection of demographics and school culture in the experiences of black African immigrants in the United States
(2017-03-17)This article explores the types of family-school relationships that promote academic, socioeconomic, and social and emotional well-being of black African immigrant children in the United States. The data are ethnographic, ... -
Father Input and Child Vocabulary Development: The Importance of Wh Questions and Clarification Requests
(Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)Individual differences in children’s language skills have been shown to stem in part from variations in the quantity and quality of parent speech input. However, most research focuses on mothers’ input whereas less is ... -
Father–toddler communication in low-income families: The role of paternal education and depressive symptoms
(2012)Using data from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of low-income fathers and their 2-year-old children who participated in the Early Head Start Research Evaluation Project (n = 80), the current study explored the ... -
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Co-Authors in Economics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)We explore the phenomenon of co-authorship by economists who share a surname. Prior research has included at most two economist co-authors who share a surname. Ours is the first paper to have three economist co-authors who ... -
First-Person Action Experience Reveals Sensitivity to Action Efficiency in Prereaching Infants
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013)Do infants learn to interpret others’ actions through their own experience producing goal-directed action, or does some knowledge of others’ actions precede first-person experience? Several studies report that motor ... -
The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
(American Economic Association, 2012)Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest-growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For-profit enrollment increased from 0.2 percent to 9.1 percent of total enrollment in degree-granting schools from ... -
Foundations of Cooperation in Young Children
(Elsevier, 2008)Observations and experiments show that human adults preferentially share resources with close relations, with people who have shared with them (reciprocity), and with people who have shared with others (indirect reciprocity). ... -
From Bureaucracy to Profession: Remaking the Educational Sector for the Twenty-First Century
(Harvard Education Publishing Group, 2013)n this essay, Jal Mehta examines the challenges faced by American schooling and the reasons for persistent failure of American school reforms to achieve successful educational outcomes at scale. He concludes that many of ... -
From “Whether” to “How”: The Varied Roles of Ideas in Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2010)This chapter examines ideas of varying levels of generality that define how policymakers should act. Building upon and drawing together the best work in the field, it seeks to offer a synthetic analysis of how ideas matter ... -
Getting Developmental Science Back Into Schools: Can What We Know About Self-Regulation Help Change How We Think About “No Excuses”?
(Frontiers Media SA, 2019-08-21)Research from education, psychology, and human development indicates that social and emotional skills are essential to success in school, work, and life, and that high-quality social and emotional learning (SEL) programs ... -
The Global Partnership for Education’s evolving support to fragile and conflict-affected states
(Elsevier BV, 2015)In this study, we trace the history of policy development within the Global Partnership for Education to discern the drivers behind the uptake of its shifting policies relating to education in fragile and conflict-affected ... -
How Can Released State Test Items Support Interim Assessment Purposes in an Educational Crisis?
(Wiley, 2020-08-27)State testing programs regularly release previously administered test items to the public. We provide an open-source recipe for state, district, and school assessment coordinators to combine these items flexibly to produce ... -
How Changes in Students' Goal Orientations Relate to Outcomes in Social Studies
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2006)Do students tend to set similar types of goals throughout the school year, or do their goal orientations shift over time? If students become more oriented toward mastery or performance over the course of the year, do they ... -
How Do American Students Measure Up? Making Sense of International Comparisons
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How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)