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ArticleJournal of school choice2020

Comment on Asbury and Wai (2019), "Viewing education policy through a genetic lens,"

Brian Byrne, Callie W Little, Richard K Olson, Sally A Larsen, William L Coventry, Rachel Weymouth

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Article in Journal of school choice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Brian ByrneUniversity of New England, Armidale NSW 2351 Australia.
Callie W LittleUniversity of New England, Armidale NSW 2351 Australia.
Richard K OlsonUniversity of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309.
Sally A LarsenUniversity of New England, Armidale NSW 2351 Australia.
William L CoventryUniversity of New England, Armidale NSW 2351 Australia.
Rachel WeymouthNSW Department of Education, PO Box 751 Armidale NSW 2351 Australia.

Funding

VALIDITY OF SUBTYPES OF ADHDP50HD027802 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI ERIK G WILLCUTT · 1990 to 2026
$44.9M
Longitudinal Twin Study of Early Reading Development (supplement)R01HD038526 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI OLSON, RICHARD K · 2000 to 2010
$4.2M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD027802NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD038526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asbury and Wai (Journal of School Choice, 2019) perform a valuable service by summarizing much available behavior--genetic research on academic achievement. However they consider that no specific policies stem from the research body at this time. Here we do propose a policy based on some of our research using twins, namely that available funding for students struggling with learning to read be targeted to them individually rather than allocated to schools per se. We briefly canvass some practical issues, such as the variety of funding mechanisms, best-practice intervention techniques, and identification of struggling readers. We also outline a general research strategy for uncovering factors contributing to educational attainment that takes behavior-genetic research as its starting point and drills down from there, and advocate including genetically-sensitive methods in a growing list of quantitative research techniques in education.

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funding distributionGeneticsquantitative methodsreading disability

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PMID33727903
PMCPMC7959005

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