According to this article, "That's the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country's child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality." I have long cited data showing that socio-economic standing is the greatest predictor of education outcomes. For example, wealthier people can afford preschool, and ""You can see a big difference between students who have gone to preschool and who have not." And, ""It is definitely difficult to have a child come into kindergarten who's never been read to," Jones explained. "And it's not that they haven't been read to because their parents don't want to—it's just when you're a single mom and you're working four jobs, it doesn't always work out that way."
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