Analysis — Beyond Achievement Gaps, a ‘Relationship Gap’: It’s Not Just What Students Know, It’s Whom They Know That Enables Them to Succeed
“The news for young people on the wrong side of these gaps, however, may be worse. Measuring opportunity in terms of household income or school quality, as education reformers are prone to do, doesn’t paint the whole picture. Students today are competing on an even more complex playing field, one that’s often masked by statistics on income and achievement gaps. A well-resourced childhood introduces a whole new set of inequities between rich and poor students, and those whose parents have or have not earned college degrees: social gaps.”