The Achievement Trap (Jack Kent Cooke Foundation)

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@Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Today in America, there are millions of students who are overcoming challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically. They defy the stereotype that poverty precludes high academic performance and that lower income and low academic achievement are inextricably linked. They demonstrate that economically disadvantaged children can learn at the highest levels and provide hope to other lower-income students seeking to follow the same path.</p>

<p>Sadly, from the time they enter grade school through their postsecondary education, these students lose more educational ground and excel less frequently than their higher-income peers. Despite this tremendous loss in achievement, these remarkable young people are hidden from public view and absent from public policy debates. Instead of being recognized for their excellence and encouraged to strengthen their achievement, high achieving lower-income students enter what we call the “achievement trap”—educators, policymakers, and the public assume they can fend for themselves when the facts show otherwise.

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<p><a href=“http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/Documents/Achievement%20Trap.pdf[/url]”>http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/Documents/Achievement%20Trap.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;