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On poverty and the achievement gap « The Progressive Pulse Duke University professor Helen Ladd had an interesting op-ed in Sunday's New York Times in which she writes about the unaddressed link between poverty and education. Here's a short excerpt: “The Occupy movement has catalyzed rising ...

On poverty and the achievement gap Duke University professor Helen Ladd had an interesting op-ed in Sunday's New York Times in which she writes about the unaddressed link between poverty and education. Here's a short excerpt: “The Occupy movement has catalyzed rising anxiety over income ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Illegitimacy and the achievement gap : "" Poverty alone," says the Times story, "doesn't seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in ... See all stories on this topic » "