Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 77.  Today we are taking a look at Predicting Later Academic Success.

In this episode, I’m sharing a very research heavy article, but it is worth the read.  School Readiness and Later Achievement by Duncan, et al provides such an interesting observation through their meta-analysis of data sets that looked at school readiness (school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills) and later academic success in reading and math.  I’m linking up the article over at buildmathminds.com/77

What’s so interesting about the findings from this article is that the strongest predictors of later academic success are school-entry math, reading, and attention skills. And early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then the attention skills.