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Dupere, Veronique; Leventhal, Tama; Crosnoe, Robert; Dion, Eric – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Influences, Organizations (Groups), Child Care
Liu, Xing; O'Connell, Ann A. – Online Submission, 2008
Childhood is the crucial period for early children's reading ability building. Former research (Hanson & Farrell, 1995) found that early reading experience had a positive and long-term effect on reading competence for high school seniors in the future. Therefore, it is of great importance for researchers to understand children's initial reading…
Descriptors: Relationship, Early Reading, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten