Doomed by poverty?
We need to accept reality, writes Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post blog, Answer Sheet.
The strongest predictor of student success in school has long been family income and parents’ education level. So we can applaud and shower with attention the students and teachers and schools that beat the odds, but it’s a bad idea to pretend that the exceptions are anything but exceptions.
Strauss concedes that schools can “make some difference in some circumstances” for low-income children and
