Poor Children and Educational Doom
In the course of a long post explaining that poor children are educationally doomed, Valerie Strauss says:
…we need to accept this reality: 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.
New statistics released by the Census Bureau this week show that three out of 10 children in the