January 10, 2008
Study Shows That Poor Gifted Students Have Worse Educational Outcomes Than Rich Gifted Students
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Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students From Lower-Income Families, by Joshua S. Wyner, John M. Bridgeland, and John J. Dilulio Jr., finds that even academically talented poor students do not fare as well as their richer peers. The report looks at students in kindergarten through grade 12 from low-income families whose standardized test scores rank in the top 25 percent. Those students are less
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