Closing the 30 Million Word Gap: Next Steps in Designing Research to Inform Practice

Recent attention to the word gap has renewed public interest in the striking vocabulary disparities between children in poverty and their higher income peers during the 1st years of life. Children's outcomes—and the nation's well‐being—could be improved by additional research into the mechanisms of vocabulary learning, as well as translational research that produces effective, feasible early‐education practices in homes and schools. In this...