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Five Social Disadvantages That Depress Student Performance: Why Schools Alone Can't Close Achievement Gaps. Report
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Morsy, Leila; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2015
That students' social and economic characteristics shape their cognitive and behavioral outcomes is well established, yet policymakers typically resist accepting that non-school disadvantages necessarily depress outcomes. Rather, they look to better schools and teachers to close achievement gaps, and consistently come up short. This report…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Social Class, Academic Achievement, Child Rearing
The Consistency of the Home Environment and its Relation to Child Development.
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Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Examines the relationship between consistency in the home environment during the first two years of life and children's intelligence test performance at age three. Results are discussed in terms of race and sex differences exhibited by 72 White and Black subjects. (MP)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Children, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment
An Empirical Investigation Into the Intellectual, Physical, Psychological, and Social Consequences of Being Reared an Only Child. Final Report.
Doby, John T.; And Others – 1980
Declining family size plus the widespread belief that only children experience adjustment difficulties provided the impetus for this investigation comparing the characteristics of only children with children raised in multiple-sibling families. Results indicated that being reared as an only child actually provided a slight developmental advantage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Order, Blacks, Children