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Science 30 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5820, pp. 1795 - 1796
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139719
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Education Forum

TEACHING:
Opportunities to Learn in America's Elementary Classrooms

Robert C. Pianta,1* Jay Belsky,2 Renate Houts,3 Fred Morrison,4 The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network5

Analysis of elementary school classrooms in the United States returns a discouraging report on the quality of students' experiences.

1Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.

2Institute for the Study of Children, Family, and Society, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK.

3Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

4Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA.

5NICHD Early Child Care and Youth Development Research Network, CRMC, NICHD, 6100 Executive Boulevard, 4B05, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.

*Author for correpondence. E-mail: rcp4p{at}virginia.edu

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