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Mark Shriver: Obama Shifts Forward as Education Gap Widens

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Obama Shifts Forward as Education Gap Widens



The New York Times on Friday led with a story about a new Stanford University study that found the education gap between kids from wealthier families and ones struggling with poverty widened to a giant chasm over the last generation.

Specifically, since 1940, the gap between affluent and low-income kids' achievement on standardized reading tests grew by 40 percent.

If past is prologue, the kids at the bottom of this gap are more likely to stay there as they grow older, are more likely to drop out of high school, are more likely to be raising their own kids in poverty and are