"Exploring the impact of these out-of-school learning and socialization experiences continues to be an important part of my research agenda: I think they are key to developing math interest and persistence. In education research there’s much more attention paid to, for example, the literacy experiences that people have outside of school and how they contribute to competence and engagement with reading and writing."
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