Social Mobility and The Achievement Gap

In the United States, children from low-income families and high-income families can be born with very similar abilities, yet children from high-income families are more likely to go on and achieve greatness, while children who are more economically vulnerable will statistically remain in the same socioeconomic class they were born into, regardless of the capabilities (Greenstone, Looney, Patashnik, & Yu, 2013). Although educators and other resource providers have access to data that shows these achievement gaps, there is still not enough being done to stimulate upward social mobility in our country's educational system. Left unattended, these children born into poverty will remain in poverty throughout their adulthood and they will miss all of the opportunities their peers from a higher socioeconomic status will inevitably have. This blog's purpose is to bring awareness to this crisis and to find innovative solutions for closing the achievement gap and ultimately stimulating upward social mobility for our country's vulnerable population of children. 

Reference

Greenstone, M., Looney, A., Patashnik, J., & Yu, M. (2013, June 26). Thirteen Economic Facts about  Social Mobility and the Role of Education. Brookings. Retrieved from:  https://www.brookings.edu/research/thirteen-economic-facts-about-social-mobility-and-the-role-of-education/