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Ballenger, Cynthia – Reading Teacher, 2019
The achievement gap has been the focus of a good deal of research, attention, and hopeful new practices, yet it has hardly decreased. Using insights from sociolinguistic and sociocultural studies of classrooms in concert with practices developed by teacher researchers in the tradition of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar, the author…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Sociolinguistics, Learner Engagement
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Martin, William C. – Florida Reading Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Fink, Rosalie P. – Thalamus: Journal of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2000
A study of highly successful men and women with reading disabilities used a developmental approach to investigate how, and under what conditions, males and females with reading disabilities develop high literacy levels and resilient self-concepts. The 60 participants in the study included a Nobel laureate, a member of the National Academy of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Intellectual Development