Peter Edelman: Reinvigorating the American Dream: A Broader Bolder Approach to Tackling the Achievement Gap: "As such, addressing in-school factors in a vacuum -- with no consideration of the problems facing the wider community -- cannot do enough to improve educational outcomes or to narrow the achievement gap between low-income students and their wealthier peers. This makes sense: English-language-learners with non-English-speaking parents are more likely to struggle academically than those whose parents can help them read in English or complete homework assignments, regardless of the quality of their teachers. Children whose parents cannot afford to enroll them in preschool during critical early years or in afterschool and summer programs face added barriers to educational attainment. A student whose physical health is compromised by food insecurity or who is stressed from living in a violent or degraded environment is set back academically in ways that even great teachers cannot fully counter. As Jean Anyon has noted, trying to reform inner-city schools without improving conditions in their cities is like cleaning the air on one side of a screen door."
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