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Title: Early Academic Skills, Not Behavior, Best Predict School Success
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Northwestern University |
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Early Academic Skills, Not Behavior, Best Predict School Success Science Daily, November 19, 2007. Also: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112182442.htm Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Science Daily Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); British Cohort Study (BCS); Children, Academic Development; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); School Entry/Readiness Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children entering kindergarten with elementary math and reading skills are the most likely to do well in school later, even if they have various social and emotional problems, say researchers who examined data from six studies of close to 36,000 preschoolers. Children's attention-related skills also mattered, the researchers found. |
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Northwestern University. "Early Academic Skills, Not Behavior, Best Predict School Success." Science Daily, November 19, 2007. |