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Income Inequality and the Online Reading Gap
Author(s) -
Leu Donald J.,
Forzani Elena,
Kennedy Clint
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1328
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , inequality , set (abstract data type) , mathematics education , computer science , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law , programming language
A recent study in Reading Research Quarterly provided evidence that an online reading achievement gap, based on income inequality, exists that is separate and independent from the well‐known achievement gap in offline reading. This column briefly reviews the evidence and provides an initial set of instructional suggestions that may be used to help close the gap.