[LibFreeOrDie]

Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University...Although family incomes may be similar, some families do not have the advantages or stability that comes with inherited wealth or several generations of college education, he said.

What a crock of Ed School BS! How many of us (and how many previous generations) didn't have those advantages, yet managed to learn?

[sarasmom]

True.
But we were not constrained as children by supposed professionals and adults in positions of power, who wrote rules regarding “zero tolerance” for verbal and physical assault, but only ever enforce those rules to “equally” punish the victims of such assaults, but not the actual assailants.

White flight?
LOL!
White, black, red, brown, yellow or purple...any parent with the financial or social means to flee the public school system does so.
If I had the means, I would also flee...
That “test scores” are going down everywhere is as much to be expected as when eventually, life expectancy rates will start falling again, under liberal/socialist rules.

[live+let_live]

Political correctness doesn’t allow the real questions of how this could happen to be spoken, much less answered.

[Inyo-Mono]

Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University...Although family incomes may be similar, some families do not have the advantages or stability that comes with inherited wealth or several generations of college education, he said.

This is BS! My family has been in America for over 350 years, yet we have had no inherited wealth or a family member that had a college education until my Father finished school in 1941.

Just poor white farmers and workers trying to get ahead.