Nonmetropolitan Status and Kindergarteners' Early Literacy Skills: Is There a Rural Disadvantage?

Autor/inn/en	Durham, Rachel E.; Smith, P. Johnelle
Titel	Nonmetropolitan Status and Kindergarteners' Early Literacy Skills: Is There a Rural Disadvantage?
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 71 (2006) 4, S.625-661 (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Social Characteristics; Academic Achievement; Counties; Kindergarten; Emergent Literacy; Social Capital; Rural Urban Differences; Young Children; Socioeconomic Influences; Demography; Family Income; Child Care; Correlation; Reading Skills; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status; School Readiness; Longitudinal Studies; Reading Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesellschaftsbild; Schulleistung; Frühleseunterricht; Sozialkapital; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Demografie; Familieneinkommen; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Korrelation; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Rassenunterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Leseleistung
Abstract	This study seeks to discover whether beginning kindergarteners vary in early literacy readiness according to their county's metro/nonmetropolitan status, county-level economic and social characteristics, individual demographic characteristics, family social capital resources, and preschool childcare. Using student-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort and county-level data from various secondary sources, we estimate a two-level hierarchical linear model to test the relationship between early literacy ability and individual and county demographic and structural factors. Results show that there is a direct association between living in a nonmetropolitan county and early literacy ability at the beginning of kindergarten, but that the direction and strength of these relationships depends on individual ethnicity and socioeconomic status, as well as the social and economic characteristics of the county. (Contains 6 tables and 4 footnotes.) (Author).
Anmerkungen	Rural Sociological Society. 104 Gentry Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-7040. Tel: 573-882-9065; Fax: 573-882-1473; e-mail: ruralsoc@missouri.edu; Web site: http://www.ruralsociology.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10