Ma analysis on math and reading achievement gaps published Sociological Studies of Children & Youth

Math and Reading Achievement Gaps-New Insights to Old Problems

Yingyi Ma

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, August 2011

Yingyi Ma

Sociology Department

Center for Policy Research

Gender and Sex

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth

Yingyi Ma

The analysis shows that this kind of curriculum structure has the most damaging effect on individual students' math achievement outcomes. For the analysis on parental involvement, the results show that school involvement is more effective than home involvement for math achievement, but not for reading. Domain-specific parental involvement is more important than general parental involvement for both math and reading. These findings have important theoretical and policy implications.