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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't agree? All the research on the achievement gap shows that it has grown or stayed stable because higher SES parents are investing so much more in their kids' education. (Achievement in other groups has also increased, btw, but the gap hasn't closed because high SES parents have upped the ante.) Kids in certain homes are also way more likely to have much bigger vocabularies, which is a huge deal for achievement. It's not true across-the-board, but Asian-American kids are (as a group) out-performing all other groups in large part because their families invest heavily in their education.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, btw. I come from poverty and a low-education Hispanic community. The facts are the facts.[/quote]

Sure, but another way of saying this is that the best way to close the achievement gap is for more people to be able to become middle class. I'm all in favor of this, but I don't think it's an education policy.[/quote]

PP here. More people need to act and think like the middle class. They don't have to be middle class. There've been some fascinating studies on the effects of poverty on the ability to think long term (stress does crazy stuff). There are things that can be done. But, no, it's not education policy. You aren't going to make a dent in the achievement gap until you deal with the root problem. The rest of it is just tinkering around the edges.[/quote]

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