During the mid-1970s through mid-1990s, the academic achievement gap for poor and rich children entering school grew substantially. The study not only showed a decreasing gap in the abilities of rich and poor children, but also a decreasing gap between white and Hispanic children. What is happening to the achievement gap between rich and poor children as they move through elementary school is not yet clear from the data. “We can’t say for sure because we don’t yet have the data.”Despite the good news, the kindergarten readiness gap between rich and poor students remains large. The second study used surveys of children’s parents to deduce whether parental behavior has changed in recent decades.

Source: Huffington Post August 26, 2016 19:06 UTC