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Aurora, Melina; Farkas, George – Remedial and Special Education, 2023
One relatively low-cost mechanism to assist teachers serving many English learner (EL) students and struggling readers is to hire, train, and manage paraprofessionals to provide supplementary instruction to such students. This study evaluated a program in which one district provided instructional aides to all first-grade teachers in the…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional Personnel, Reading Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Grade 1
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Aurora, Melina; Farkas, George – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study provides estimates for the impact of centre-based care participation during pre-kindergarten on Latino children's academic readiness skills at kindergarten-entry. Using the ECLS-K:2011 dataset, findings indicate that Latino children who participated in centre-based care during their pre-kindergarten year had significantly higher English…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Kindergarten
Morgan, Paul L.; Farkas, George; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Li, Hui; Pun, Wik Hung; Cook, Michael – Exceptional Children, 2017
We examined the extent to which disparities in the receipt of special education services for speech or language impairments (SLIs) on the basis of race, ethnicity, or language use by kindergarten--when the delivery of these services might be expected to be most effective--have changed over a 12-year period in the United States. Logistic regression…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Cohort Analysis, Disproportionate Representation
Morgan, Paul L.; Farkas, George; Hillemeier, Marianne M.; Li, Hui; Pun, Wik Hung; Cook, Michael – Grantee Submission, 2017
We examined the extent to which disparities in the receipt of special education services for speech or language impairments (SLIs) on the basis of race, ethnicity, or language use by kindergarten--when the delivery of these services might be expected to be most effective- have changed over a 12-year period in the United States. Logistic regression…
Descriptors: African American Students, Cohort Analysis, Disproportionate Representation, Ethnicity