Rich Child Left Behind

The article “No Rich Child Left Behind” written by Sean Reardon, focuses on the education gap between students of low and high-income families. Throughout the article, Reardon informs his audience on many studies he has conducted and read about that prove the following to be true: the rich children perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families, high-income students are more likely to be enrolled in a highly selective college or university and graduate, the rich outperform the middle class by as much as the middle class outperform the poor, and also the rich have higher participation rates in extracurricular activities and school leadership positions. While attending an annual meeting of the American