Who are America's Poor Children? The Official Story

By Vanessa R. Wight, M. Chau, Yumiko Aratani. 2010

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Race, Poverty and SAT Scores: Modeling the Influences of Family Income on Black and White High School Students’ SAT Performance (2013, background): “…poor quality schooling, school per-pupil expenditures, parenting practices, high school equivalent or lower parental education, parental unemployment, 5 single-parent homes, et cetera (Birch & Gussow, 1970; Bowles, Durlauf, & Hoff, 2006; Lareau, 2003; Lee & Wong, 2004; Fass & Cauthen, 2008).”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “At the 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, less than 1% of the 1,000 research presentations reported including participants from disadvantaged families, although 20–40% of children in the United States are growing up in poverty (Wight et al. 2010).”
Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “At the 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, less than 1% of the 1,000 research presentations reported including participants from disadvantaged families, although 20–40% of children in the United States are growing up in poverty (Wight et al. 2010).”