Poor planning skills found to contribute to income-achievement gap
Monday, July 1, 2013 - 23:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one reason for the income-achievement gap, which can emerge as early as kindergarten and continue through high school.