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Both Asian and non-English speaking Hispanic parents give their children low scores on approaches to learning compared with how white parents score their kids.

Considering race in addition to social class reduces math and reading skills gaps minimally.

The American Dream in Crisis, saving the American Dream requires ensuring not just opportunity but mobility; a child’s life odds should not be determined by her parents’ employment or wealth

Katie Brage

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1) When looking at minority success, I find it interesting that Asian students are grouped with white students. I wonder if this changes statistics in areas where there are high numbers of Asian American students.

2.) "The most socioeconomically disadvantaged children lag substantially in noncognitive skills..." I work in a low-income school and I can see this gap when it comes to social skills as well as emotional intelligence. This impacts their ability to get jobs, etc.

3.) Income affects approach to learning.

Ariel

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1) If a child does not have a balanced and stable home life, their school life will suffer.  Low socioeconomic status not only affects a child's academic life, but their social life as well.  Kids who have difficulty with social skills suffer more academically.
2)  PREKINDERGARTEN. Need I say more?
3)  One of the first steps to closing the gap is addressing segregation and poverty.  Minorities often live in isolated communities where they cannot receive the resources to help them out of poverty.  Integrating these students into higher quality schools could help the kids exponentially.

Hannah Power

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1) It amazed me that a child can fall behind so early in their education. At this age, kindergarten, kids don't know how the money or other factors enhances or hurts their education.
2) I did not realize that poverty played such a huge role in education. I guess, that i didn't realize it could affect effort or reading comprehension that seem to be independent of money.
3) Not only does the social economic status affect the child's ability to learn, it also is affected by the child's home lifestyle. The home lifestyle has to do with social status, but it also has to with where they live or if they have a single parent.

Trevor Kocour

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1) That the one key factor of success comes down to socioeconomic background.

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1) That the one key factor of success comes down to socioeconomic background.

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2) It's interesting how parents and teachers value or look at student's progress and behavior when determining success.
3) You never know what kids are going through, that's something that's really gotten me through my first year. It's hard not to think that kids aren't trying hard enough or could do better, when really they might be going through something that you have no idea about. People in low SES have a harder time sometimes catching up, and that doesn't make them "stupid" or "bad" kids.

Casey O'Flaherty

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1) The #1 determining factor in children's educational success is their socioeconomic background.
2) Schools that have higher populations of minority students and often a lower socioeconomic demographic underperform on test scores because of this.
3) I was surprised to see that this lower status actually begins in kindergarten. Often these students never catch up.

Jillian Curtis

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1) The most socioeconomically disadvantaged children lag substantially in noncognitive skills, as related to both parents and teachers, yet the gaps are less i reading and math.
2) Race - based skill gaps between reading and math shrinks significantly when children's social class is taken into account and research has found that racial minorities lower socioeconomic status largely explains gaps that appear to be due to race.
3) Many children are obtaining, is making it harder for them to obtain societies goals. With a low-quality or delayed start to education will only lead to disadvantages among children as they progress through school.

Kathryn Van Wijk

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1. The first think that really struck me is how much poverty puts students at a disadvantage both cognitively and non-cognitively, even as early as kindergarten. I think that this speaks to how great the need is to address the poverty in our nation and do something about ending it. Obviously we can't save everyone from poverty because there are some people that do not want to pull their own weight, but we as a country need to do everything we can to close the gaps between the rich and poor so that children do not suffer from disadvantages of being in a lower economic class, which they cannot help.
2. I was really surprised at how much parents and teachers rated the student's different abilities based on race/ethnicity. I am just confused by the different results while they were looking at the same kids.
3. I never really though of prekindergarten, or home visits for healthcare being super important for young children, but it makes sense that the opportunity to have these is important to put kids at a more equal place going into school.
Emily Holland

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1) It is alarming how much socio-economic status helps/hinders for students.  These economic gaps are very present in early childhood and set children up to struggle or remain behind throughout life.
2) Since we have a very large gap between the different socioeconomic statuses, it makes sense that children are also affected by non cognitive skills as well as social and behavioral skills. Although, that idea never occurred to me. It is sad to know that where you were born and the family you were born into has such a large impact on the rest of your life.
3) Now we are aware of all these problems, action needs to happen.  With that said we can close to gaps and serve a wider spectrum of kids by providing education to those that are disadvantage.  For example, providing prekindergarten is a great initiative.

Ashley Narke

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1. I believe this article did a good job presenting important variables for teachers to keep in mind when they may feel a student is not working hard, or is labeled as a "bad" kid.
2. I can recall a discussion from my Advanced Psychological Foundations course that addressed looking at the SES factor when it comes to students performance. A school in Chicago had been given all kinds of resources and classroom upgrades to attack their low graduation rate, but no matter what they brought in or who was running the school most of their attempts to reform the school focused on getting more money and never addressing the students personal issues. This article does a solid job of presenting a few roadblocks that those students may be dealing with.
3. When it comes to comparing and contrasting how a parent may view their child's behavior versus how the teacher may view it I think race, and expectations play a big role in the discrepancy one may see. There was a point made regarding how black parents may rate their child's self control higher than a teacher would. I think part of this has to do with what is expected at home may not be expected in the classroom, as well as a racial connection if there is a difference between the teacher and the student.

Joshua Brannon

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1. I found it interesting that when they accounted for SES between racially diverse students and white students the gap was almost non-existent between groups. I think that this is promising that divide among races is getting lower, however, because racially diverse people make up a majority of low SES that obviously needs to be looked at.
2. I found it interesting where teachers ranked a child's persistence based on race, I would like to see more data behind this figure. I felt that they may have followed social stigmas a little too closely. It would be interesting to do a more psychological evaluation of these students to see where they really are, not just gather information based on opinion.
3. It was interesting to me at the end of the article, where they list the possible solutions to the problem, that most of these programs are currently in the most jeopardy. It worries me that if some of these social programs were cut back or taken away completely how much father behind these marginalized students would be. I think that too often when we are arguing about holding adults accountable and not giving people a free ride we forget about the children who it is really hurting.

Abby Adams

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1)      Is sad and interesting to see how social class matters in the cognitive development for kids. Most of the time I was thinking that kids with low SES where stigmatize. The sad reality for these kids is that low SES comes with a substantial disadvantage and obstacles for school success.

2)      These gaps are significant, it explains that lower SES appears to be due to race. Because Hispanics are the largest minority in the United States they tend to experience different dimensions into the subgroup based on their native language.

3)      I want to add another viewpoint to the article. This article will put most of the blame on SES, but as a single Hispanic mother I want to offer a cultural point of view. Hispanics families place far more importance on familiar and community relationships than what is placed on money. Money can always be made but familiar relationships help create an unbreakable bound.

Vianka Maisonet

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1. It was interesting to see how much on impact the SES of their family has on a student starting out.  I would also like to see the amount of education these parents have factored in. If the parents don't care about education then the child won't either.
2. Pre-K is way more important than I had ever really thought of it being before reading this
3. Asian students are a minority (just like hispanic and black students) but why do they fare so much better? Is it a societal or cultural thing? I wonder what makes them be so much better in school than other minorities?

Trenton Perry

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1) I find it interesting that these gaps aren't just intellectual but goes as far to affect non cognitive skills.  The article gave the example of self control.
2) There is such a large gap between the different SES and races. It is easy to think that all children have the same advantages no matter what, but they really do not. Asian students seemed to have the highest advantage with hispanic students having the lowest.
3) Prekindergarten, quality child care, and home visits by child development professionals are some suggested solutions to the issue. However, I see how that would be difficult because I know several parents who were a part of some 'cuts' made to an at home program.  I think finding funding would be the most difficult part, on a state level all the way down to a parent's level.  Quality child care is not cheap and should not be cheap but I do not know what the solution to that may be.

Kara Minehardt

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1.  It is extremely important for children to start school on equal footing as school builds on itself and starting behind early on leads to numerous problems down the road. Doing this, however, is the difficult part.
2. There are numerous things that can impact a child's development. For example, "parents' income levels, level of education, and job status." As teachers, we must be aware of external factors that can inhibit a child in the classroom.
3. There are many different ways to bridge the gap between struggling students and those high achieving ones. The ways listed in this article are governmental or economic policies and revolve around student success as linked to external factors, especially income. This shows how challenging it can be to make substantial change in a single classroom.

Max Grisnik

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1. Schools having high populations of minority students are lower-performing by coincidence because socioeconomic status is the highest indicator of educational success and a majority of low-SES families are comprised of primarily minority groups.
2. "Persistence is as likely as math and reading aptitude to help a student actually finish high school." -- this is incredibly true as I can speak to my own experience as a teacher. The students who believe in themselves and effectively communicate are always going to perform better than those who don't believe they can accomplish a given task and resign themselves to failure.
3. It seems odd to me that the way that parents view their student's degree of persistence and self control are very different from how educators view them when dealing with minority students. Is this institutionalized racism? I read once that teachers are sometimes harder on minority students because they, on average, look older and when they don't live up to expectation, they are more harshly penalized.

Devon Whitton

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1.	It is interesting to see that teacher perceive Asian students’ noncognitive skills are superior to those of the students of other race/ethnicities. 2.	 I wonder if the research study what cause Asians students’ performance to be  better than their counter parts of Black and Hispanic background.3.	As a parent who utilized the Parents As Teacher program offered in our school district, I agree that having home visit by nurses would help better prepared children for schools.   Missouri is the state which started the PAT and is one of the state currently offer this to parents in state.

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1.	It is interesting to see that teacher perceive Asian students’ noncognitive skills are superior to those of the students of other race/ethnicities. 2.	 I wonder if the research study what cause Asians students’ performance to be  better than their counter parts of Black and Hispanic background.3.	As a parent who utilized the Parents As Teacher program offered in our school district, I agree that having home visit by nurses would help better prepared children for schools.   Missouri is the state which started the PAT and is one of the state currently offer this to parents in state.

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Thi Nguyen

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1. I was shocked to see the differences in both SES and race and how it limits or encourages Pre-Kindergarten care, and therefore determines a child's success throughout his or her lifetime. Children from lower social classes are starting much further behind than those from higher classes.
2. I thought the piece about non cognitive skills was really important to include, whether there are many descriptive statistics on it or not. This is a huge part of students feeling comfortable in the classroom and allowing them the ability to succeed. Even with high cognitive skills, this alone is enough to set a child behind.
3. I was surprised to see the difference in the way parents and children perceive the non cognitive ability of their students based on race. I wonder if the bias is on the side of the parent or of the teacher, or probably a bit of both.

Gretchen Boxdorfer

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1.Social class is the single most important factor in determining a child’s readiness for kindergarten and future school.  Being in a low social class is an automatic disadvantage for students and places students behind their peers. This makes school success for this population very hard.                                                  2.Authors of this article look at noncognitive skills as an important factor in predicting kindergarten readiness and future school success. These skills are just as important as reading and math skills.              3.Noncognitive skills are very important but are hard to measure and are only based on teacher and parent rating skills. Without an accurate estimate it is hard to predict what impact not having these skills will have on a child’s future school success.  

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1.Social class is the single most important factor in determining a child’s readiness for kindergarten and future school.  Being in a low social class is an automatic disadvantage for students and places students behind their peers. This makes school success for this population very hard.                                                  2.Authors of this article look at noncognitive skills as an important factor in predicting kindergarten readiness and future school success. These skills are just as important as reading and math skills.              3.Noncognitive skills are very important but are hard to measure and are only based on teacher and parent rating skills. Without an accurate estimate it is hard to predict what impact not having these skills will have on a child’s future school success.  

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Sara Steinhart

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1. Parents' economic settings and resources are connected with their children's readiness for school.  Limited resources means unpreparedness - cognitively and noncognitively.  These disadvantaged beginnings start with one's race, SES, and ethnicity.  

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1. Parents' economic settings and resources are connected with their children's readiness for school.  Limited resources means unpreparedness - cognitively and noncognitively.  These disadvantaged beginnings start with one's race, SES, and ethnicity.  

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2. Pre-kindergarten is extremely important because it helps students of all backgrounds learn social skills, increases cognitive ability, and disciplines them for the school years ahead.
3. A child's life should not be predetermined by their parents' wealth.  In order to narrow the achievement gap there need to be "fewer poor kids"  Equal opportunity cannot exist unless government policies change.

Katrina Presler

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1) I liked how they included the part about the gaps in the non-cognitive skills, even if they aren't as significant.  I feel like these are super important, so any gap, no matter how small, is very significant. 

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1) I liked how they included the part about the gaps in the non-cognitive skills, even if they aren't as significant.  I feel like these are super important, so any gap, no matter how small, is very significant. 

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2) The gap between the teachers' and the parents' perceptions of the non-cognitive skills was interesting to read about!
3)  I never thought about home visits from nurses as a possible solution to child preparedness for school. This seems like it could be a theoretically simple and effective idea.

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Share 3 take aways from the article:  Early Education Gaps by Social Class and Race Start U.S. Children Out on Unequal Footing

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Share 3 take aways from the article:  Early Education Gaps by Social Class and Race Start U.S. Children Out on Unequal Footing

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Christy Boman