Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year

By D. Downey, Paul T. von Hippel, Beckett A. Broh. 2004

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do instructional practices contribute to inequality in achievement? (2007, neutral): “…Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publications (www.sagepublications.com) Vol 5(3) 301–322 [ISSN 1476-718X DOI: 10.1177/1476718X07080476] (Burkam et al., 2004; Downey et al., 2004; Duncan and Magnusson, 2004; Farkas, 2004; Farkas and Beron, 2004; Fryer and Levitt, 2004; Jencks and Phillips, 1998; Lee and…”
Addressing Summer Reading Setback Among Economically Disadvantaged Elementary Students (2010, background): “On the other hand, Downey, von Hippel, and Broh (2004) , analyzing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data, found that economically disadvantaged children fell about 2.”
Are “Failing” Schools Really Failing? Using Seasonal Comparison to Evaluate School Effectiveness (2008, methodology): “…family structure, race/ethnicity, and gender, explain only 30 percent of the variation in children’s cognitive skills at the beginning of kindergarten and just 1 percent of the variation in the amount that children learn when they are out of school during summer vacation (Downey et al. 2004).”
Academic Vulnerability and Resilience during the Transition to High School (2010, background): “Also, SES gaps in learning grow more rapidly during the summer, when school is not in session, which suggests that home environments are more unequal than school environments (e.g., Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson 2001; Downey et al., 2004).”
The Effects of Summer Reading on Low-Income Children’s Literacy Achievement From Kindergarten to Grade 8 (2013, positive): “…analyses involving the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Cohort of 1998, indicate that low-income children are more at risk of falling behind middle-and high-income children in reading during the summer months than during the academic school year (Downey, von Hippel, & Broh, 2004).”
Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Achievement: Results From a Randomized Field Trial (2006, background): “Usually, studies have employed granular measures of socioeconomic status (SES) such as family income (Heyns, 1978) or a composite based on parental income, occupational status, and education (Downey et al., 2004; Entwisle et al., 1997).”