Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Lolndon study on pleasure reading

A study  carried out by the Centre for Logditudinal Studies, at the Institute of Education (one of the colleges of the University of London) supplies evidence that children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers.  Strong reading ability affected children's scores in math, vocabulary and spelling. Here is the link to the press release - it specifically mentions the importance of the library:  
Social inequalities in cognitive scores at age 16: The role of reading’, by Alice Sullivan and Matt Brown. CLS Working Paper 2013/10 

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