Becoming Literate: Baltimore Early Childhood Project

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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education

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Robert Serpell, vice chancellor at the University of Zambia, discusses the results of his five-year study tracing literacy development in pre-kindergarten through third-grade children from low- and middle- income families of European and African heritage in Baltimore. His presentation centers on how the concept of intimate family culture can assist in moving the discussion of educational disadvantage beyond stereotyped accounts of various social addresses. 

Catherine Snow, the Henry Lee Shattuck professor of Education, will provide an introduction.

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