Education
She graduated from Berkley, went on to do graduate work in psychology at Washington University, and later received her Doctor of Philosophy from Kansas University where she also became a professor at the Lifespan Institute.
She graduated from Berkley, went on to do graduate work in psychology at Washington University, and later received her Doctor of Philosophy from Kansas University where she also became a professor at the Lifespan Institute.
The study was widely influential and inspired the establishment of many government programs aimed at changing the linguistic practices of low income parents. Subsequent scholars have thrown doubt on Hart and Risley"s findings, argueing that Hart and Risley"s study was methodologically unsound and that the language disparity proposed by Hart and Risley does not in fact exist and cannot be considered causal for the disparity of education outcomes. She died in 2012, in Tucson Arizona due to lung cancer.
