{"id":462,"date":"2024-11-25T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=462"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:40:26","slug":"word-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Word Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\">Children from professional families hear 215,000 words per week, compared to 125,000 for working-class families and 62,000 for families on welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-183cc0b5241aace4e55fc6e7f30e76df\">The average child from a professional family hears 215,000 words per week; a child from a working class family hears 125,000 words per week; and a child from a family receiving welfare benefits hears 62,000 words per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Hart, B. &amp; Risley, T.R. (1995). Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children from professional families hear 215,000 words per week, compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacy-statistics","tag-brain-literacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}