America has the second highest child poverty rate of the thirty-five nations measured by the United Nation Children’s Fund. Yet only two fifths of poor children in the US have access to Head Start. Our political leaders have largely overlooked the connection between poverty, poor educational attainment, and even neural malfunctions—and the extent to which effective poverty reduction itself can correct the problem.
America has the second highest child poverty rate of the thirty-five nations measured by the United Nation Children’s Fund. Yet only two fifths of poor children in the US have access to Head Start. Our political leaders have largely overlooked the connection between poverty, poor educational attainment, and even neural malfunctions—and the extent to which effective poverty reduction itself can correct the problem.
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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. | Indira Gandhi Quote
