Extending research on the relationships between materiality and process, this article examines how writers' preferences for particular materials--places, technologies, objects--develop over time. With a specific focus on how materials affect writers and how writers are affected by their writing tasks, this article considers how writers' histories…

Many people have worried about possible adverse effects of high-stakes testing on socioemotional outcomes. This article uses a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the effects of the introduction of high-stakes testing via the No Child Left Behind Act on socioemotional outcomes. Data are from the Early Childhood Longitudinal…