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Harris, Toni; Sideris, John; Serpell, Zewelanji; Burchinal, Margaret; Pickett, Chloe – Journal of Negro Education, 2014
This study examined the degree to which dimensions of parenting predicted early academic outcomes in a sample of 111 low-income African American children. Three aspects of parenting were assessed when the children were 36 months old: language stimulation, math-related stimulation, and maternal sensitivity. Academic outcomes were assessed at 54…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, African American Children, Preschool Children
Rubinson, Laura E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
More than one third of American children cannot read at a basic level by fourth grade (Lee, Grigg, & Donahue, 2007) and those numbers are even higher for African American, Hispanic and poor White students (Boorman et al., 2007). These are alarming statistics given that the ability to read is the most basic and fundamental skill for academic…
Descriptors: Music, Reading Research, Early Reading, Phonemics