A student at a GED program in the central Bronx. As returns to education have magnified, so have the differences in performance among students up and down the income ladder.
It’s well known that wealthy kids outperform poor kids in school, but now the rich are also pulling away from middle-class students. Why? And is class or race the key factor in how NYC school kids perform?
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