The Matthew Effect is social phenomenon that observes the initial advantage tends to get further advantage, and disadvantage further disadvantage. In Education, the Matthew Effect: when some children enter into a positive feedback loop with relative ease experience a positive affect and are able to read the text that they are given in schools with fluency. This phrase has been attributed to sociologist Robert K. Merton and Harriet Zuckerman in 1968 and taken from a biblical verse in the Gospel of Matthew. (For to everyone who has shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away: Matthew 25:29)
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