Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

Author: Todd R. Risley
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1557661979

Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children

This study of ordinary families and how they talk to their very young children is no ordinary study at all. Download Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Betty Hart and Todd Risley wanted to know why, despite best efforts in preschool programs to equalize opportunity, children from low-income homes remain well behind their more economically advantaged peers years later in school. Their painstaking study began by recording each month - for 2-1/2 years - one full hour of every word spoken at home between parent and child in 42 families, categorized as professional, working class, or welfare families. Years of coding and analyzing every utterance in 1,318 transcripts followed. Rare is a database of this quality. "Remarkable," says Assistant Secretary of Education Grover (Russ) Whitehurst, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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