Poverty

The article Poverty and student achievement was about how students who live in poverty are more likely to underachieve than their peers from high income households and that they are also at risk of not completing school. The article state that over the last twenty-five years, the dropout rate for economically dasdvastating students has declined, but still remains substantially higher than for students’ from wealthier backgrounds. The article also states that in all academic subjects, children from affluent households outperform low0income students. On the NAEP tests in reading, writing, science, math, and United states history, students who are ineligible for federal free lunch programs because the incomes of their families are too high consistently have the highest scores. The lowest score are earned by children who do qualify for the lunch programs. African American and Latino children are disproportionally affected by poverty. The department of education found that in 2003, 71 percent of Latino and 70 percent of African American students in the fourth grade qualified for free or reduce price lunch programs, and 23 percent of white children did. The article states that African American and Latino children are also more likely to attend high poverty schools. The child poverty rate is higher in the United States that in any other country. In 1946 the National School Lunch Act was signed by President Harry Truman. The head start Program was established in 1965 to increase the readiness for school of low income children from birth to five years of age. That same year, Title 1 the first section of elementary and secondary education act, allowed for the provision of funds to schools with large numbers of low-income students. The article also stated that in 1973 the united state Supreme Court ruled against mandating equal financing for public schools. A class section suit had been brought on behalf of students in the state Texas by Latino parents whose