Learning Opportunities

In the area of Learning Opportunities, researchers explore the connections between race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status with academic functioning and achievements. Specific areas of study include the influences of socioeconomic status on children's learning and socioemotional development (see Votruba-Drzal and Henry), Early Childhood Influences on Learning in African American Children (see Henry), how early life stress has an impact on one's neurobiology and behaviors (see Hanson), and how issues in educational achievement are shaped by peoples' subjective understandings of themselves and their environment (see Binning).

Additional topics include examining the social and ecological processes that influence knowledge transfer (see Nokes-Malach) and reducing systemic barriers for minority students to succeed in postsecondary education (see Iriti), see also The Free College Handbook Presents Research on 'Promise' Programs.