Teaching Low-Income Children to Read at Grade Level

In the struggle to give children from low-income households the same opportunity for school success as middle-class children, progress has been quite slow. Farkas argues that if sociologists devote a focused effort to this problem, they can play a significant role in its solution.

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Published in:Contemporary sociology (Washington) 2000-01, Vol.29 (1), p.53-62
Main Author: Farkas, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anniversaries
Children
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive Development
Core curriculum
Curricula
Education policy
Education reform
Educational administration
Educational Inequality
Educational Policy
Elementary school students
Essays
Grade levels
Handwriting
Households
Learning
Literacy
Low income
Low Income Groups
Middle class
Parents
Parents & parenting
Poverty
Reading comprehension
Research Applications
Sociological Research
Sociology
Students
Success
Teaching
Thinking skills
Tutoring
Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century: Achieving Basic Survival
Vocabulary development
Writing
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Summary:In the struggle to give children from low-income households the same opportunity for school success as middle-class children, progress has been quite slow. Farkas argues that if sociologists devote a focused effort to this problem, they can play a significant role in its solution.
ISSN:0094-3061
1939-8638
DOI:10.2307/2654931