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Parental goals and talk with toddlers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Myriad studies support a relation between parental beliefs and behaviours. This study adds to the literature by focusing on the specific relationship between parental goals and their communication with toddlers. Do ... -
Pathways to educational success among refugees: Connecting locally and globally situated resources.
(Sage, 2017)This study identifies pathways to educational success among refugees. Data are from an original online survey of Somali diaspora and in-depth qualitative interviews with Somali refugee students educated in the Dadaab refugee ... -
Pathways toward Peace: Negotiating National Unity and Ethnic Diversity through Education in Botswana
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)This study examines how education can disrupt threats of conflict, specifically in the presence of ethnic diversity. We present a historical analysis of Botswana, using methods of process tracing drawing on documents, ... -
Peer influence on children’s reading skills: A social network analysis of elementary school classrooms.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2016)Research has found that peers influence the academic achievement of children. However, the mechanisms through which peers matter remain underexplored. The present study examined the relationship between peers’ reading ... -
The Penetration of Technocratic Logic into the Educational Field: Rationalizing Schooling from the Progressives to the Present
(Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013)Educational accountability is not a recent invention. Over the course of the 20th century, there were three major movements demanding accountability in American education: the efficiency reforms of the Progressive Era, the ... -
Pointing and talk by low-income mothers and their 14-month-old children
(SAGE Publications, 2000)This study examines maternal talk and uses of the pointing gesture during interaction with young children in order to uncover the relationship between maternal and child pointing and talk. Forty- five low-income mother-child ... -
Poverty, physical stature, and cognitive skills: Mechanisms underlying children’s school enrollment in Zambia.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2015)Past research suggests robust positive associations between household socioeconomic status and children’s early cognitive development in Western countries. Relatively little is known about these relations in low-income ... -
Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning
(Public Library of Science, 2008)Background In this study we investigated the association between instrumental music training in childhood and outcomes closely related to music training as well as those more distantly related.Methodology/Principal Findings ... -
Predicting Freshman Grade Point Average From College Admissions Test Scores and State High School Test Scores
(SAGE Publications, 2016)The current focus on assessing “college and career readiness” raises an empirical question: How do high school tests compare with college admissions tests in predicting performance in college? We explored this using data ... -
Predictors of Variation in Maternal Talk to Children: A Longitudinal Study of Low-Income Families
(2005)Objective. The goals of this study were (1) to examine the extent of variation in amount and lexical diversity of maternal talk to young children within a sample of low-income families, (2) to determine the patterns of ... -
Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge Type and Knowledge Quality
(2013)Following Star (2005, 2007) we continue to problematize the entangling of type and quality in the use of conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge. Although those whose work is guided by types of knowledge and those ... -
Professional Development for Reading Achievement: Results from the Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP)
(University of Chicago Press, 2012)The Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP) is a model of professional development designed to help teachers incorporate research-based practices of literacy instruction, support mastery, and sustained ... -
Professionalization 2.0: The Case for Plural Professionalization in Education
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Proficiency and control in verbal fluency performance across the lifespan for monolinguals and bilinguals
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)The verbal fluency task is a widely used neuropsychological test of word retrieval efficiency. Both category fluency (e.g., list animals) and letter fluency (e.g., list words that begin with F) place demands on semantic ... -
Promotion and reassignment in public school districts: How do schools respond to differences in teacher effectiveness?
(2011)We use a unique administrative database from the state of Florida to provide the first evidence that promotion and other job reassignments within school districts are systematically related to differences in teacher ... -
Proposal for the Creation of a Subdiscipline: Education Informatics
(2010)“Education Informatics” is the name for an emerging new sub-discipline of education. We define “Education Informatics” as the application of technology to discovering and communicating education information. This article ... -
The Purposes of Refugee Education: Policy and Practice of Including Refugees in National Education Systems
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)<jats:p> This article explores the understood purposes of refugee education at global, national, and school levels. To do so, we focus on a radical shift in global policy to integrate refugees into national education systems ...