The Efficacy of a Voluntary Summer Book Reading Intervention for Low-Income Latino Children From Language Minority Families

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-31

  Kim, James S ^a   Guryan, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

family literacy; language minority children; randomized experiments; text readability; voluntary summer reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249174302     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017270     Document Type: Article

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