From the New York Times, by Sean F. Reardon
Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families. Students growing up in richer families have better grades and higher standardized test scores, on average, than poorer students; they also have higher rates of participation in extracurricular activities and school leadership positions, higher graduation rates and higher rates of college enrollment and completion.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/?smid=fb-share
Poverty is not an excuse and if we really truly want to see improvement in our struggling schools, if we really truly want to break the cycle the answer is not to outsource our children's education to corporations but to put into lace things that mitigate poverty.
Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families. Students growing up in richer families have better grades and higher standardized test scores, on average, than poorer students; they also have higher rates of participation in extracurricular activities and school leadership positions, higher graduation rates and higher rates of college enrollment and completion.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/?smid=fb-share
Poverty is not an excuse and if we really truly want to see improvement in our struggling schools, if we really truly want to break the cycle the answer is not to outsource our children's education to corporations but to put into lace things that mitigate poverty.
