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The term 30-million-word gap (often shortened to just word gap) was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, [1] and subsequently reprinted in the article "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3". [2]
Betty Hart (born Bettie Mackenzie Farnsworth, July 15, 1927 – September 28, 2012) was an American education researcher, known for her work on the relation between vocabulary learning and social inequality, in particular the "word gap".
In 2019, Suskind wrote that she acknowledged the shortcomings of the Hart and Risley study and that there was a need to move beyond the idea of a 30-million-word gap. She explained that the name of her research center at the University of Chicago was changed from “Thirty Million Words” to “The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health ...
When it comes to property ownership, single women in the U.S. have a major edge — owning 2.72 million more homes than single men according to LendingTree. In fact, they outnumber single male ...
The Democratic candidates in 2012 and 2016 both won nearly 66 million votes, a bit less than Harris’ current count. Harris had won about 67 million votes as of Wednesday afternoon, compared to the approximately 81 million Biden garnered in 2020 — a difference of about 14 million. But that gap is decreasing as the vote count continues.
This gap can be measured by 30 million words, and this stretches from learners who live in poverty to those who are afforded the best education money can buy. Although it is not just the socioeconomics that divide America's literate, literacy rates also greatly range between racial groups. To support American learners the World Literacy ...
The average wealth gap between white families and Black and Hispanic ones reached a new high in 2022, according to a new report by the Urban Institute.
All told, between the Trump campaign, its fundraising affiliates, and the R.N.C., Republicans had $281 million available at the end of June, while Biden and the Democrats had about $237 million.