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It’s Better to be Rich than Smart

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Jun 03, 2019
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It’s better to be rich than smart: Just 30% of low-income kindergartners with high test scores become well-off young adults, compared to 70% of high-income kindergartners with low test scores. This report suggests that America’s education system is, in the words of report author Anthony Carnevale, “an aristocracy posing as a meritocracy.”

—MarketWatch

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