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Direct linkComber, Barbara; Kamler, Barbara – Teaching Education, 2004
The fact that children growing up in poverty are likely to be in the lower ranges of achievement on standardised literacy tests is not a new phenomenon. Internationally there are a myriad of intervention and remedial programmes designed to address this problem with a range of effects. Frequently, sustainable reforms are curtailed by deficit views…
Descriptors: Research Design, Poverty, Research Methodology, Family Attitudes
