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Word gap

The term 30-million-word gap (often shortened to just word gap) was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, and subsequently reprinted in the article "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3". In their study of 42 Midwestern families…

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related to Educational system studies · 32
Word gap → Achievement Gap, Act, Black, Brown, Civil Rights Act, During, Education, Flores, Garcia, Given, Hart, HR, In, Language Gap, Lastly, Latino, Middle, Miller, No Child Left Behind, Otheguy
related to Political implications · 24
Word gap → Atlanta, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fail, Georgia, Greater United Way, Hart, Health, Human, In, LENA Device, Me Baby, Miller, Providence, Rhode Island, Risley, Sperry, Talk, Talk With Me Baby, The, The Clinton
related to Gap discourse · 17
Word gap → Achievement Gap, Achievement Gap Discourse, As, Asian, AYP, Discourse, Explaining, It, James Paul Gee's, Schools, STEM, The, The Achievement Gap, The Discourse, The Word Gap, Under, White
related to Word Gap internationally · 16
Word gap → Achievement Gap, American Word Gap, Europe, France, Hart, It, Oxford Language Report, Risley, South Africa, The, The Oxford Word Gap, UNESCO, United Kingdom, United States Word Gap, Why Closing, Word Gap Matters
related to Criticism · 9
Word gap → Hart, In, Other, Paul Nation, Risley, Risley's, The, This, Thus
related to Hart & Risley's contribution · 6
Word gap → Hart, Risley, SES, The, They, Thus
related to Other word gaps · 6
Word gap → American, Another Type, Hart, Orellana, Risley, The

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gap language word children achievement vocabulary hart words families risley socioeconomic child welfare educational backgrounds study found discourse ses status

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culturalinstance ofespecially those that were not seen as part of the purview of schools0.80text
socioeconomicinstance ofespecially those that were not seen as part of the purview of schools0.80text
and linguistic realities of students at homeinstance ofespecially those that were not seen as part of the purview of schools0.80text
the Linguistic Society of America.The achievement gap became an especially strong interest for study in the turn of the centuryinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
and the early 2000s when a plethora of studies looked at factors such as standardized test scoresinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
presence in classinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
GPAinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
enrollmentinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
and dropout rates in secondaryinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
post-secondary educationinstance ofas well as organizations0.80text
using media for language acquisitioninstance ofas well as other linguistic resources0.80text
Word gaprelated to CriticismHart0.60section

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