PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Greg J. Duncan
AU  - Richard J. Murnane
TI  - Rising Inequality in Family Incomes and Children's Educational Outcomes
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.06
DP  - 2016 May 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 142--158
VI  - 2
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/2/2/142.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/2/2/142.full
AB  - Increases in family income inequality in the United States have translated into widening gaps in educational achievement and attainments between children from low- and high-income families. We describe the mechanisms that have produced this disturbing trend. We argue that the three dominant policy approaches states and the federal government have used to improve the education of the disadvantaged have had at best modest success in improving education for disadvantaged children. To conclude, we describe the building blocks for an American solution to the problem of growing inequality of educational outcomes.