Educators' latest idea for closing "The Achievement Gap" is "Close the 30 million word gap." To explain, by the time children reach kindergarten, the kids of professional parents have heard an average ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence’s high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city’s ...

Today, Too Small to Fail, a joint initiative between Next Generation and the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S.

Three decades ago, child development researchers found that low-income children heard tens of millions fewer words in their homes than their more affluent peers by the time they reached kindergarten.

It's one of the most famous studies ever done on kids. It's often cited as a reason children from poor families struggle in school. But it may be... Did you know that kids growing up in poverty hear ...