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Tan, Samantha X. L.; Harvey, Jenadra; Kendrick-Dunn, Tiombe Bisa; Proctor, Sherrie L. – Communique, 2020
As noted in the first article in this National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Social Justice Committee (SJC) series on health disparities (see Proctor et al., 2020), health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Individual Differences, Social Justice, School Psychologists
Weinberg, Daniel H. – US Department of Commerce, 2004
This report looks at the distribution of earnings by occupation for all workers and separately for men and women as reported on the Census 2000 long form. Earnings include wages, salaries, and self-employment income (see Text Box: What is "Earnings"? for more details). Whereas income questions have been asked on the decennial census only since…
Descriptors: Employees, Income, Individual Differences, Occupations
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Duranczyk, Irene M.; Goff, Emily; Opitz, Donald L. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
In this article, we discuss the importance, specifically for developmental educators, of understanding diverse students' use and perceptions of learning centers. Among the results of a survey of students' perceptions of the mathematics program in the General College, University of Minnesota, we found statistically significant differences in how…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Learning Centers (Classroom), Socioeconomic Status, Grades (Scholastic)
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Noble, Kimberly G.; Wolmetz, Michael E.; Ochs, Lisa G.; Farah, Martha J.; McCandliss, Bruce D. – Developmental Science, 2006
Functional neuroimaging may provide insights into the achievement gap in reading skill commonly observed across socioeconomic status (SES). Brain activation during reading tasks is known to be associated with individual differences in children's phonological language skills. By selecting children of equivalent phonological skill, yet diverse…
Descriptors: Brain, Socioeconomic Status, Reading Skills, Language Skills
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Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Sociology of Education, 2006
As more Americans enter college than ever before, their pathways through the broadly differentiated higher education system are changing. Movement in, out, and among institutions now characterizes students' attendance patterns--half of all undergraduates who begin at a four-year institution go on to attend at least one other college, and over…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Family Characteristics, College Attendance, Advantaged
Grossman, Herbert – 1993
The study described in this report was conducted to investigate possible differences in professors' preferences for classroom/behavior management techniques based on their gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and field of instruction. In phase 1 of the study, professors (N=452) who taught classroom/behavior management to regular and/or special…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Education Courses