children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting received. A …

before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly … children enter school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting … received. A growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families …

children during the early childhood years. -- child development ; early experience ; economic productivity ; critical and …

formation ; cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; technology of skill formation ; investment in children …