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Download full textAndreassen, Alexandra – Online Submission, 2013
A variety of recent research has shown that the academic achievement gap has been growing between low- and middle-income students. Socioeconomic status has proven to have a large influence on academic attainment as well as the educational opportunities that a child is offered. This paper argues that, because poverty significantly affects children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Middle Class, Low Income Groups
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Direct linkNeuman, Susan B.; Celano, Donna – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This study examines children's uses of reading resources in neighborhood public libraries that have been transformed to "level the playing field." Through foundation funding (US$20 million), the public library system of Philadelphia converted neighborhood branch libraries into a technologized modern urban library system, hoping to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Neighborhoods, Library Networks, Public Libraries
Brown, Edward K. – 1971
Low achieving, low socioeconomic students, because of a multiplicity of little-understood background factors, seem to fail not because of an initial lack of motivation to learn, but because basic learning processes taught them by their own communities are not contiguous with those required for academic success. The study attempts to determine if…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
