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How poverty molds the brain: Poor neural processing of sound linked to lower maternal education
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-poverty-molds-brain-poor-neural.html ___________________________________________________ KC Education Research Updates is a sister site of the KC Education Enterprise, which covers policy news of interest to residents of 28 districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Researcher finds that poverty’s ‘cognitive cost’ translates to as many as ten IQ points
A recent article on the Phys.org website summarizes new work by Harvard researchers investigating the effects of poverty on intelligence quotient measurements. According to the article: The accumulation of those money woes and day-to-day worries leaves many low-income individuals not only struggling … Continue reading
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Value Added of Teachers in High-Poverty Schools and Lower-Poverty Schools
This just in from the National Center for Educational Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001469-calder-working-paper-52.pdf ___________________________________________________ KC Education Research Updates is a sister site of the KC Education Enterprise, which covers policy news of interest to residents of 28 districts in the … Continue reading
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