Children of poverty and access to books
Children of poverty and access to books
Sent to the Guardian, UK, Dec. 10, 2010
American scores on an international test of reading (the PISA) show exactly the same thing that UK scores show: Children of poverty don't read very well ("Half of pupils on free school meals can't read," Dec. 10).American students in schools with few children of poverty scored near the top of the world, those in schools with mostly high poverty children scored near the bottom of all countries tested.
Similar to the UK results, our research also shows that middle class English language learners often do better
