The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children's Educational Achievement

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent discussion-list post
“The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children’s Educational Achievement” [Hake (2011)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In response to my post “Why Minnesotans Excel at Math and Other Mysteries of the Nation's Report Card” [Hake (2011)], EDDRA2’s Gary Ravani wrote (paraphrasing): “That children in Minnesota and Massachusetts excel at math could be explained by the fact that those two states have child poverty rates (14% and 15% respectively) well below the national rate of 22%.”

The overriding influence of poverty on educational achievement has recently been noted in, e.g. (alphabetical order by author):

a. Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances [Duncan & Murnane (2011)] at http://bit.ly/nCkmKv;

b. “Re: Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban School Problems #2” [Hake (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/ozuZEn;

c. “Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?” [Ladd & Fiske (2011)] at http://nyti.ms/vx3nub;

d. “Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in Mathematics: Poverty is a More Important Cause than Teacher Quality” [Marder (2011a)] at http://bit.ly/fjUquC;

e. “Education and Poverty: Visualizations of World, US, and State-level Educational Data” [Marder (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/nYC6eF;

f. “The hard bigotry of low expectations and low priorities” [Ravani (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/sUZ17T;

g. “Unaddressed Link Between Poverty & Education” [Schaffer (2011)] at http://bit.ly/tbckql.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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“. . .let's not pretend that family background does not matter and can be overlooked. Let's agree that we know a lot about how to address the ways in which poverty undermines student learning. Whether we choose to face up to that reality is ultimately a moral question.”
Ladd & Fiske (2011)

REFERENCES [All URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 14 Dec 2011.]
Hake, R.R. 2011. “The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children's Educational Achievement” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/tUU65W. Post of 14 Dec 2011 09:56:02-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.

Ladd, H.E. & E.B. Fiske. 2011. “Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?” New York Times Opinion Piece, 11 Dec; online at http://nyti.ms/vx3nub.