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- Title
The Longitudinal Effects of Residential Mobility on the Academic Achievement of Urban Elementary and Middle School Students.
- Authors
Voight, Adam; Shinn, Marybeth; Nation, Maury
- Abstract
Residential stability matters to a young person’s educational development, and the present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of many families. This study uses latent growth-curve modeling to examine how changing residences affects math and reading achievement from third through eighth grade among a sample of urban elementary and middle-school students. Results show that residential moves in the early elementary years have a negative effect on math and reading achievement in third grade and a negative effect on the trajectory of reading scores thereafter. Further, there is a negative contemporaneous effect of mobility on math scores in third through eighth grade but no such contemporaneous effect on reading scores. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RESIDENCE &; education; HOME &; school; ACADEMIC achievement &; society; ACADEMIC achievement; FAMILY stability; HOUSEHOLD moving -- Social aspects; INTERNAL migration; SOCIOECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL sociology
- Publication
Educational Researcher, 2012, Vol 41, Issue 9, p385
- ISSN
0013-189X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/0013189X12442239