The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
“We hear a lot about how children from low-income families often enter school with a “word gap,” meaning they have heard and know fewer words than their more affluent peers, a reality that puts them at a disadvantage from the very beginning of their education. In this post, Esther Quintero, a research associate at the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute, looks at why the “word gap” is more than about words.”(more)