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Bilingualism, Biliteracy, and Learning to Read: Interactions Among Languages and Writing Systems
(Informa UK Limited, 2005)Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children ... -
Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, and Learning to Read in Two Writing Systems.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2005)Two hundred and four 5- and 6-year-olds who were monolingual English-, bilingual English–Chinese-, or Chinese-speaking children beginning to learn English (2nd-language learners) were compared on phonological awareness and ... -
How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
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Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ... -
Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers
(2005)This article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal ... -
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 ... -
Who Knows Mathematics Well Enough to Teach Third Grade, and How Can We Decide?
(2005)In this article, the authors describe a program of research they have been developing for more than a decade into the mathematical knowledge and skills that are used in teaching. Their research begins with examining the ... -
Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2005-01)This study explored whether and how teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching contributes to gains in students’ mathematics achievement. We used linear mixed model methodology in which first (n=1190) and third (n=1773) ... -
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 ... -
The impact of private provision of public education: Empirical evidence from Bogota's concession schools
(2006)In 1999, the city of Bogotá, Colombia launched the Concession School program designed to broaden the coverage and quality of basic education. It consists of a contract between a group of private schools and the public ... -
Assessing Reading Comprehension in Bilinguals
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)A new measure of reading comprehension, the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), designed to reflect central comprehension processes while minimizing decoding and language demands, was pilot tested. We ... -
What Counts as Literacy in Early Childhood?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006)Issues of literacy development are a major source of worry to American educators. Worries about whether U.S. children read well enough emerge every time results of an international comparison are published. Many of the ... -
Evaluating the impact of different early literacy interventions on low-income Costa Rican kindergarteners
(Elsevier BV, 2006)Grade retention has been the de facto policy for children with academic difficulties in many Latin American countries [Schiefelbein, E., & Wolff, L. (1992). Repetition and inadequate achievement in Latin America’s primary ... -
Teachers as memory makers: Testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa
(Elsevier BV, 2006)This article examines the use of testimony in the making of a new history in South Africa, situating this phenomenon in the context of public construction of memory and identifying history teachers as critical to the ... -
'I Find Myslef as Someone Who Is in the Forest': Urban Refugess as Agents of Social Change in Kampala, Uganda
(2006)An in-depth investigation of the Kampala Urban Refugee Children's Education Centre (KURCEC), a refugee-initiated community-based organization in Uganda, allows for detailed exploration of the livelihood strategies employed ... -
The universality of symbolic representation for reading in Asian and alphabetic languages
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)Neuroimaging studies of reading have identified unique patterns of activation for individuals reading in alphabetic and Asian languages, suggesting the involvement of different processes in each. The present study investigates ... -
The Civic Achievement Gap
(2007)This paper, drawn from a book in progress, summarizes evidence of a civic achievement gap between non-white, poor, and/or immigrant youth, on the one hand, and white, wealthier, and/or native-born youth, on the other. Young ... -
Encouraging girls in math and science
(2007)The objective of this guide is to provide teachers with specific recommendations that can be carried out in the classroom without requiring systemic change. Other school personnel having direct contact with students, such ... -
Common Schools and Multicultural Education
(2007)Common schooling and multicultural education intuitively seem to be mutually reinforcing, and possibly even mutually necessary: each is motivated by and/or serves the aims of promoting social justice and equality, common ...