Time for comparative achievement gap lecture with @MissAngieBaker & looking forward to Lee Elliot Major of the Sutton trust! #lsechildren
Interested to hear the LSE's findings on the achievement gap #LSEchildren
At the LSE for public lecture on the achievement gap. Let's see what we can learn from the US. #LSEchildren
Our Co-director John Hills begins tonight's III & @CASE_LSE #LSEchildren event by introducing Jane Waldfogel pic.twitter.com/gaiZSxfyBV
Jane Waldfogel explains how family socio-economic status creates 'divergent destinies' in education #LSEchildren pic.twitter.com/54WtiTiaSW
The United States leads the pack in a bad way, highest inequality of access to resources for #LSEchildren & families https://twitter.com/lseinequalities/status/656887072544968705 …
Lower educated parents in Canada read to their children more often than highly educated parents in US #LSEchildren pic.twitter.com/OcDe9vDGVH
Waldfogel: Children in the US start primary school more unequal & finish primary school more unequal (than Canada, UK & Aus) #LSEchildren- Evidence doesn't suggest that public education is working to reduce gross inequalities. - Prof. Jane Waldfogel @LSEInequalities #LSEchildren
- Following children with same test scores age 5, socioeconomic status creates inequality in results between them through school #LSEchildren
- Waldfogel: Key finding of our study is that majority of achievement gap in education already present when children enter school #LSEchildren
Policy recommendations - provide more support for early learning #lsechildren- Policy recommendations - raise family income of poor #lsechildren
- Policy recommendations - improve quality of teaching and learning #lsechildren
Waldfogel:to reduce gaps in children's outcomes - 3policy areas incl maintaining/expanding taxcredits #LSEchildren pic.twitter.com/2BqbOAXjRS- Waldfogel: "Low income parents can't do a good job of investing in their child's education without stability & security" #LSEchildren
- Glaring problem: teachers in the U.S. earn approx 1/3 less than workers with the same level of education #LSEchildren @LSEInequalities
US teachers are paid 67% of the average graduate salary - in the UK, Aus, Canada it's around 100% #LSEchildren
Jane Waldfogel finishes her presentation, now to open discussion @Lem_SuttonTrust, CEO of @suttontrust #LSEchildren pic.twitter.com/Nt8Ggd74RI
Prof. Jane Waldfogel @LSEInequalities majority education achievement present when children enter school #LSEchildren https://twitter.com/LSEInequalities/status/656895183922012162 …- Prof. Jane Waldfogel @LSEInequalities majority education achievement present when children enter school #LSEchildren https://twitter.com/LSEInequalities/status/656895183922012162 …
Educational attainment gap between high and low income children at age 5 is 19 months #LSEchildren #ukpoverty- .@Lem_SuttonTrust: This study is humbling challenge to our idea of school as a great social leveller #LSEchildren
- .@Lem_SuttonTrust: scaling up evidence based education programmes is a real challenge even when effective solutions found #LSEchildren
- Q&A has now begun. Qs on regional inequalities in countries, investing early & special needs children. Tweet us your questions #LSEchildren
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