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Originally Posted by lhpartridge
In the district where I teach, 90% of students entering kindergarten are unready for school. In the state, it is close to 50%. The district in which I live is an A-level district, despite being majority "minority," and I would imagine that most children begin school on target for academic learning.
The variable is the home, where family income and parent involvement are closely correlated with student achievement. The best thing that the United States could do to improve its educational outcomes is to effectively reduce child poverty. Student outcomes generally reflect the demographic from which the children come.
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Reducing poverty isn’t going to change educational outcomes as long as the primary cause of the child living in poverty isn’t addressed - parents who make poor child rearing choices, starting with the granddaddy of them all, choosing to keep and raise a child as a young single mother. I’m sorry, I know saying that gets people’s hackles up, but the research backs me up.
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