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Posted by JayMan on Thu Mar 29 15:14:09 2012, in response to Low Family Income Not a Major Reason For Poor Student Achievement, posted by DAND124 on Thu Mar 29 09:05:52 2012. No shit. Of course, let's condense:But, he points out, most of the connection is not causal, but due to other factors. Indeed, mostly the IQ of the students... Responding to Ladd’s claim that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in earlier decades, Peterson points out that the achievement gap between income groups was growing at exactly the same time the federal government was rapidly expanding services to the poor – Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, housing subsidies, and many other programs. Here they are just echoing Charles Murray. Ironically these very programs serve to exacerbate these problems, both by aiding the talented but materially disadvantaged to escape poverty and join the upper classes, and by aiding the survival and reproduction of the poor (and untalented), increasing their share of the population. |
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