Being Poor Can Keep You From Learning

This is an exciting story in the Washington Post. Research shows that children who grow up in poverty have serious problems remembering information.

Guess what. Remembering information is crucial to academic success. So, there is research proving that many of our DC children may be failing in school because of the poverty they live in.

Read the story here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501719.html?nav=hcmodule