Schools, Achievement, and Inequality: A Seasonal Perspective

By K. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, L. Olson. 2001

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Math Shelf: A Randomized Trial of a Prekindergarten Tablet Number Sense Curriculum (2016, background): “Socioeconomics-related math achievement differences are evident at home and in school (Alexander et al., 2001; Borman & Boulay, 2004; Klein & Starkey, 2004; Meyer, Princiotta, & Lanahan, 2004; Starkey & Klein, 2008).”
Projecting the Potential Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Academic Achievement (2020, background): “Prominent early work on summer learning loss found that students lost about a month of learning over the summer, with lower-income students falling behind middle- and high-income students in reading (Alexander et al., 2001; Cooper et al., 1996).”
Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Achievement: Results From a Randomized Field Trial (2006, background): “Longitudinal studies have continued to show that gaps in reading achievement based on children’s socioeconomic status grow larger during summer vacation than during the school year (Alexander et al., 2001; Downey et al., 2004).”
The Family-School Partnership: An Opportunity to Promote the Learning Competence of All Students. (2003, background): “Home learning resources and opportunities, especially during summer, are a differentiating factor between low and high achievers ( Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2001 ).”
Extracurricular School Activities: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonlinear (2002, result): “…Hoffer, & Kilgore, 1982; Hoffer, Greeley, & Coleman, 1985) about the ability of schools to equalize educational opportunity in an entirely different context, an alternative interpretation of results reported by Marsh (1992), and some recent results by Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson (2001).”
Inequalities in home learning and schoolsâ€™ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK (2020, background): “2 develop learning disadvantages whilst their well-off comparators continue to explore and learn (Alexander et al., 2001).”
Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, how Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know? (2003, positive): “Heyns (1978), studying Atlanta, Entwisle and Alexander (1992, 1994; see also Entwisle, Alexander, and Olson, 1997; Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson, 2001), studying Baltimore, and O'Brien (1998) studying a district in Texas, have found that achievement gaps by income and race do not increase during…”
Inequality in homeschooling during the Corona crisis in the Netherlands. First results from the LISS Panel. (2020, background): “Alexander et al. (2001) show that in the United States socio-economic inequalities increase during the 2-3 month summer break.”