... investing in families of poverty, all of which contribute to socioeconomic inequalities (Grubb and Lazerson, 2004). Class structure provides evidence to the socioeconomic inequalities brought on by the U.S. educational system. Reardon states that the achievement gap between children form high and low income families is roughly 30 to 40 percent larger among children born in 2001 than among those born twenty ... five years earlier (Reardon, 2011). The attainment gap can be associated with the direct and indirect affects of family income on a child's access to education. Economic stability...

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