Study: Good schools alone may not help poor achieve success

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds need to do more than just attend a good school to boost their educational achievement, a new report by the British charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation says. School quality accounted for a fraction of variations in achievement, it said. Family disadvantage is passed on from one generation to the next in a cycle of underachievement, it added. The report, which summarizes the findings of eight earlier projects for the charity's education and poverty program, seeks to understand the well-known correlation between poverty and low educational performance. Read about the report at BBC News.