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Tyner, Adam; Kabourek, Sarah – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2020
Curriculum experts have long argued that adopting content-rich language arts curricula would help to remedy the knowledge deficit. Another approach is simply to devote more classroom time to subjects like science and social studies. It is an open question whether more time spent on such content-rich subjects in elementary school classrooms might…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Reading Comprehension, Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Shen, Ye; Wang, Rui; Zhang, Fan; Barbieri, Christina Areizaga; Pasquarella, Adrian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present study examined the effect of children's enrollment in U.S. dual-language immersion (DLI) programs in first grade on English development across five years, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2011 (ECLS-K:2011) database. Propensity score matching was used to create comparable groups of DLI and non-DLI…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bilingual Education Programs, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Reid, Tingting – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Previous research examining the reading achievement of immigrant children has often grouped English learners into one broad category, referred to as ELs, thereby creating an "either-or" dichotomy regarding whether or not these students need school language supports. The present study examined the theoretical contention regarding the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Family Environment, Literacy Education