Raising the risk of poor school performance and dropping out, more than 8 million children in the United States miss 15 or more school days each year. That’s approxmately one in every six students. This hidden education crisis is even more widespread for families living with incomes below the federal poverty line, with the percentage […]
Category: Time to Learn
By sixth grade, a child from a poor family has spent an estimated 6,000 fewer hours learning than a peer from an affluent household, who tends to have more exposure to everything from books to museums to travel and summer camp. The resulting divide can seem impossible to reverse. Is it? The Hechinger Report is spending a year exploring this so-called “opportunity gap” and how schools around the country are trying to narrow it by providing more time to learn.
