The rate of academic progress has been reported to be slower than those with a higher socioeconomic status. In particular, students from low socioeconomic status are often found to have delayed letter recognition, phonological awareness, and difficulty with addition, subtraction, sequencing, and word problems compared to students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds. Currently, students from low-income families enter high school 3.3 levels behind students of higher socioeconomic status and 4.3 levels behind graduation. Research also suggests that schools with low socioeconomic status are less likely to have qualified teachers. As growing income inequality continues to grow in the United States, there has been a growing achievement gap between students from low socioeconomic statuses compared to those with high socioeconomic statuses. As expected, students from low-income families have lower enrollment and achievement
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