The Hill News

President Obama recently described the achievement gap between middle-income and low-income children as the "civil rights issue of our time."

"That’s not a white, black or brown problem," the president said. "That’s everybody's problem."

We couldn't agree more. Every 26 seconds, a student drops out of high school. The disparity in positive education outcomes is trapping more and more young children into intergenerational poverty.

Fortunately, we now we know where the education gap begins.

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