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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] They call it the Matthew Effect because well off parents know how to teach or push or things that will enable their kids to succeed. An excellent book on this is Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271425[/quote] The matthew effect is actually about reading: early success in acquiring reading skills usually leads to later successes in reading as the learner grows, while failing to learn to read before the third or fourth year of schooling may be indicative of life-long problems in learning new skills. This is because children who fall behind in reading, read less, increasing the gap between them and their peers. Later, when students need to "read to learn" (where before they were learning to read), their reading difficulty creates difficulty in most other subjects. In this way they fall further and further behind in school, dropping out at a much higher rate than their peers.[/quote]
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