Segregated schools hinder reading skills

Children in families with low incomes, who attend schools where the minority population exceeds 75 percent of the student enrollment, under-perform in reading, even after accounting for the quality of the literacy instruction, literary experiences at home, gender, race and other variables, according to a new study. Read more about the study, by the FPG Child Development Institute and the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in this article from the Medical News Today website.