(Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)Low-income kindergartners are entering school with stronger math and reading skills, narrowing the academic gap with their affluent peers and reversing a decades-old trend, according to research released Friday. Reardon had previously found that academic achievement gaps grew substantially from the 1970s to 1990s. But he and Portilla found that between 1998 and 2010, academic gaps between low-income and high-income kindergartners shrank between 10 percent and 16 percent. The gap between white and Hispanic kindergartners narrowed 14 percent, and the gap between white and black kindergartners appeared to narrow somewhat, but the margin of error was too large to say for sure. “The big increases in those kinds of activities aren’t coming among high-income families, who were already doing them a lot, but among low-income families.

Source: Washington Post August 26, 2016 19:07 UTC