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Direct linkLee, Julia Ai Cheng; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
Socioeconomic status and gender are important demographic variables that strongly relate to academic achievement. This study examined the early literacy skills differences between 4 sociodemographic groups, namely, boys ineligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRL), girls ineligible for FRL, boys eligible for FRL, and girls eligible for FRL.…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Emergent Literacy, Lunch Programs
Raffaele Mendez, Linda M.; Kim, Eun Sook; Ferron, John; Woods, Bonnie – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors examined long-term outcomes for children who experienced delayed entry to kindergarten or kindergarten retention. They used a cohort of 6,841 students to compare these groups to each other and typically progressing peers. First, the authors compared the groups on demographic and early childhood variables. For the long-term school-based…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students, Equal Education
Download full textKansas Association of School Boards, 2014
Governor Sam Brownback has recommended the Kansas Legislature phase-in funding for full day kindergarten programs over the next five years. This proposal has also been adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education. Currently, all kindergarteners are counted as a half-time (0.5) student for funding purposes. About 87 percent of Kansas…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education, State Aid, Funding Formulas
Huang, Francis L.; Invernizzi, Marcia A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The authors investigated whether age at kindergarten entry was associated with early literacy achievement gaps and if these gaps persisted over time. Using the kindergarten age eligibility cutoff date, they created 2 groups of students who represented the oldest and youngest children in a cohort of students in high-poverty, low-performing schools.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, School Entrance Age, Academic Achievement
McCabe, Allyssa; Champion, Tempii B. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
The "Expressive Vocabulary Test" (EVT) has recently been found culturally fair for an economically mixed sample of African American children, and others have argued that it is fairer for such participants than the "Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III" (PPVT-III). In this study, the authors sought to replicate these findings…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Item Analysis, Low Income Groups
Raskin, Candace F.; Haar, Jean M. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
In 2004, after an in-depth review of student achievement data for over 4,000 students, the administration of a school district in southern Minnesota identified the following challenges: (1) above-state-average number of special education students; (2) increasing number of English as Second Language (ESL) students; (3) increasing number of students…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Lunch Programs, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
