... more and more. Differences became more obvious between those living in poor areas and those living in richer neighborhoods. These things contributed to a gap in educational achievement. A Stanford sociologist Sean F. Reardon found that the achievement gap between rich and poor kids born in 2001 was 30 to 40 percent larger than it was for those born 25 years earlier. America, the ... ...

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