Carol McDonald Connor, Stephanie L. Day, Nicole Sparapani, Sarah W. Ingebrand, Leigh McLean, Angela Barrus, Beth Phillips, Michael P. Kaschak Child Development, Vol ...

Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from the Harvard Graduate ...

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Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...