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[quote=Anonymous]At this point it appears that SES is the clearest indicator of how well children will do on tests.  That is what the freaknomics study found, not how smart or educated a child could become.   SES does not completely determine how a child will learn or the possibility of economic mobility.  There is a greater context where achievement can be influenced the question becomes societal will on all levels- curriculm, parents, communities, schools.

Someone mentioned the core knowledge sequence above, the premise of the author of that program is that cultural knowledge is a key componenet of social movement and edcuation... high SES parents impart that knowledge through a wide range of experiences they provide their children form museums to treading to travel to general table converation.   Some, but not most will go from poverty to tremendous wealth.  I think the bigger issue though is how to raise kids whose parents will never earn more than minimum wage to jobs that can earn a living wage - law firm secretary - pays $60,000 a year but requires a lot of knowledge that a solid high  school education and community college can provide, but you have to have decent grammer skills and know that you can't tell an attorney to shut up or wear clothes that are too tight and low cut.  (Believe me this is not always the case I have seen people fired for this stuff. ) These are SES issues for many kids there is a lot that needs to be done and increasing economic segregation and complete focus on tests over curriclumn is not going to help. [/quote]

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