RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rising Inequality in Family Incomes and Children's Educational Outcomes
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 142
OP 158
DO 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.2.06
VO 2
IS 2
A1 Greg J. Duncan
A1 Richard J. Murnane
YR 2016
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/2/2/142.abstract
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.