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Study Shows That Poor Gifted Students Have Worse Educational Outcomes Than Rich Gifted Students

By Anne W. Howard

Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students From Lower-Income Families, by Joshua S. Wyner, John M. Bridgeland, and John J. Dilulio Jr., finds that even academically talented poor students do not fare as well as their richer peers. The report looks at students in...

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