Improving Schools Is Not The Key To Upward Mobility For Poor Children, Finds New Research

UC Berkeley economist Jesse Rothstein "found that differences in local labor markets - for example, how similar industries can vary across different communities - and marriage patterns, such as higher concentrations of single-parent households, seemed to make much more of a difference than school quality. For Rothstein, there's no reason to assume that improving schools will be necessary or sufficient for improving someone's economic prospects. 'We can't educate people out of this problem,' he says."

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