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May have 30 million more words if youre a higher income family than the lower income family. i mean 30 million more words, its extraordinary that kind of difference. >> right. >> you can even chart the differences as young as 18 months. >> yes. now, the 30 million more words isnt the childs vocabulary. >> what they have even been exposed to. >> what theyve heard. a child may be in a rich language environment, televisions always on, lots of siblings, lots of adults around. so one of the things we...

Rich families and poor families, basically, following up on that classic study by hart and risley years ago, showing the so-called 30 million word gap. thats kind of become a buzz word. but when we look across these broad groups, from a socioeconomic perspective, in terms of income and education, we find that within richer families, and within poorer families, theres incredible variability, a difference in how much parents engage with their children. its not the s.e.c. or socioeconomic status is...