Chart: Relationship between 8th-grade NAEP reading scores and child poverty rate, 2009

Figure D

Relationship between 8th-grade NAEP reading scores and child poverty rate, 2009

Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement Historical Poverty Tables (Table 19) and the National Center for Education Statistic's 2009 Nation's Report Card (NCES 2010, Table A-19)

This chart appears in:

Mismatches in Race to the Top Limit Educational Improvement: Lack of Time, Resources, and Tools to Address Opportunity Gaps Puts Lofty State Goals Out of Reach

Previous chart: « Income and white-black achievement gaps in reading, 1943–2001 birth cohorts

Next chart: Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) average reading scores by economic, social, and cultural status (ESCS) percentile, 14 countries, 2009 »