TANF status, ethnicity, and early school success
This article presents a secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The ECLS-K data are from a national sample of children who began kindergarten during 1998/9. The article reviews literature about the relationships among poverty, ethnicity, and early success in school, analyses three-year longitudinal data by student ethnicity and TANF status, and provides a discussion of policy implications. The findings suggest that, although many children from non-English-speaking backgrounds catch up with peers during the first three years of school, TANF status remains a good predictor of overall achievement in the third grade.
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2009
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Authors: | Moon, Sung Seek ; Hegar, Rebecca L. ; Page, Jaimie |
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Children and Youth Services Review. - Elsevier, ISSN 0190-7409. - Vol. 31.2009, 8, p. 854-863
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | TANF Poverty School achievement ECLS-K |
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