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[quote=Anonymous]Check out this link about the effect of SES on academic results:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2006/06/21/41kahlenberg.h25.html

Research has long found that a given student will perform better in a middle-class school than in a high-poverty school. The highly regarded Coleman Report of the 1960s found that, after the influence of the family, the socioeconomic status of a school is the single most important determinant of a student’s academic success. The basic findings of the report—including that all children do better in middle-class schools—have been affirmed again and again in the research literature. ("Race Report's Influence Felt 40 Years Later," this issue.) In 2005, for example, University of California, Santa Barbara, professor Russell W. Rumberger and his colleague Gregory J. Palardy of the University of Georgia found that a school’s socioeconomic status had as much impact on the achievement growth of high school students as a student’s individual economic status. Scores from the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress among 4th grade students in math indicate that low-income students in more-affluent schools score at levels a year and a half more advanced than low-income students in high-poverty schools. [/quote]

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