{"id":74343,"date":"2012-10-06T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18640"},"modified":"2012-10-06T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T06:01:39","slug":"the-power-of-home-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/06\/the-power-of-home-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of home environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/07\/nyregion\/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">Before a Test, a Poverty of Words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Things are very different elsewhere on the class spectrum. Earlier in the year when I met Steven F. Wilson, founder of a network of charter schools that serve poor and largely black communities in Brooklyn, I asked him what he considered the greatest challenge on the first day of kindergarten each year. He answered, without a second\u2019s hesitation: \u201cWord deficit.\u201d As it happens, in the \u201980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent years cataloging the number of words spoken to young children in dozens of families from different socioeconomic groups, and what they found was not only a disparity in the complexity of words used, but also astonishing differences in sheer number. <strong>Children of professionals were, on average, exposed to approximately 1,500 more words hourly than children growing up in poverty. This resulted in a gap of more than 32 million words by the time the children reached the age of 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes sense. It certainly explains the dearth of the children of working class Korean immigrants in higher education, seeing as their parents often have rudimentary English vocabularies. Oh wait&#8230;. These tales of the power of upper middle class &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/uWvCEWiAEj8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before a Test, a Poverty of Words:<br \/>\nThings are very different elsewhere on the class spectrum. Earlier in the year when I met Steven F. Wilson, founder of a network of charter schools that serve poor and largely black communities in Brooklyn, I asked hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74462,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74343\/revisions\/74462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}