Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares
Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.
.. What emerges clearly in the data is the extent to which race and class are inextricably linked, and how that connection is exacerbated in school settings... Mr. Reardon said that educators in these schools may subliminally – or consciously in some cases – track white students into gifted courses while assigning black and Hispanic students to less rigorous courses.