The Education Gap [transcript and audio] - (50 min) Michigan

Chris Engel 10/25/131:51 PM

"We’ll visit two 5th grade classrooms this hour. One class is made up of kids whose families are mostly well-off:

"In general the kids have a lot of help. Their parents are role models. Most of them come from families where their parents are reading as well, or they’re working and have to do work at home, so they’re kind of modeling those things.

"The other classroom is filled with kids in poverty:

"They have such anger issues, and then you meet the parent and that explains everything; they’re angry because their parents are angry. They’re modeling that behavior, and it takes an entire year to turn it around and then they move and we get a new set of them...."

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