Does Economical Gap Create Academic Achievement Gap?: How Child Care and Education Can Compensate Poverty

Can Academic Standards Boost Literacy and Close the Achievement Gap?

About the Authors: Ron Haskins is a senior editor of The Future of Children, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, and a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation; Richard Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Isabel Sawhill is a senior fe...

Association Between Child Poverty and Academic Achievement.

The international child poverty gap: does demography matter?

According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the U.S. child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult present live in poverty-the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined in this study. While previous ana...

Association of Child Poverty, Brain Development, and Academic Achievement.

IMPORTANCE Children living in poverty generally perform poorly in school, with markedly lower standardized test scores and lower educational attainment. The longer children live in poverty, the greater their academic deficits. These patterns persist to adulthood, contributing to lifetime-reduced occupational attainment. OBJECTIVE To determine whether atypical patterns of structural brain deve...

Closing the achievement gap between high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools

We examine the achievement gap between low-income minority students in inner city (high-poverty) schools and their white high-income counterparts who attend suburban (lowpoverty) schools. Our data include the 4 and 5 grade math and reading scores for over 15,000 students in a large urban school district. We use a multilevel model to show that school resources do matter. We find that high qualit...