Poverty link remains constant in Ohio students’ poor test scores

Jim Siegal

The Columbus Dispatch

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/10/09/education-poverty-remains-constant-in-poor-test-scores.html

October 9th, 2016

Poverty, Test Scores,

"Regardless of which tests students are taking or if more districts are seeing D’s or F’s on their report cards, the results continue to show a strong correlation with poverty levels."

This is a great article on the correlation between poverty rates and academic test scores at the high school level in Ohio. Jim Siegal sheds light on how the correlation works and what the data is telling lawmakers in Ohio.