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The article Poverty and student achievement was about how students who live in poverty are more likely to underachieve than their peers from high income households and that they are also at risk of not completing school. The article state that over the last twenty-five years, the dropout rate for economically dasdvastating students has declined, but still remains substantially higher than for students’ from wealthier backgrounds. The article also states that in all academic subjects, children from affluent households outperform low0income students. On the NAEP tests in reading, writing, science, math, and United states history, students who are ineligible for federal free lunch programs because the incomes of their families are too high consistently have the highest scores. The lowest score are earned by children who do qualify for the lunch programs. African American and Latino children are disproportionally affected by poverty. The department of education found that in 2003, 71......

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