Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development: The Differential Effects of School Exposure.

Over the past several decades, research has documented strong relationships between social class and children’s cognitive abilities. These initial cognitive differences, which are substantial at school entry, increase as children progress through school. Despite the robust findings associated with t...

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Publicado en:Sociology of Education Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 271 - 287
Autor principal: Ready, Douglas D.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Oct2010
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        Socioeconomic factors
        Elementary education
        Social marginality
        Poor children
        School attendance research
        Cognitive development
        Social classes
        Longitudinal method
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          Socioeconomic factors
          Elementary education
          Social marginality
          Poor children
          School attendance research
          Cognitive development
          Social classes
          Longitudinal method
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        achievement
        attendance
        inequality
        social class
      ab: Over the past several decades, research has documented strong relationships between social class and children’s cognitive abilities. These initial cognitive differences, which are substantial at school entry, increase as children progress through school. Despite the robust findings associated with this research, authors have generally neglected the extent to which school absenteeism exacerbates social class differences in academic development among young children. Using growth-curve analyses within a three-level hierarchical linear modeling framework, this study employs data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K) to examine the links between children’s social class, school absences, and academic growth during kindergarten and first grade. Results suggest that the effects of schooling on cognitive development are stronger for lower socioeconomic status (SES) children and that the findings associated with theories of summer learning loss are applicable to literacy development during early elementary school. Indeed, although they continue to achieve at lower absolute levels, socioeconomically disadvantaged children who have good attendance rates gain more literacy skills than their higher SES peers during kindergarten and first grade.
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