Despite enormous investment in education reform, the achievement gap between poor children and their higher - income peers persists, threatening the economic security of our nation's most vulnerable youth. (ilcommunityschools.org)
Eight years later these same children performed significantly worse on vocabulary tests and language assessments than their higher - income peers did. (scientificamerican.com)
Moreover, the problem is worse for low - income students and students of color, whose rates of remedial education enrollment are higher than for their white and higher income peers. (americanprogress.org)