[quote=thejard]NPR talked the other day where some study was done back in the 90s where they took lower income folk and moved them to middle income areas.
They had hoped the kids would do better and the adults would too. They largely found it didn’t.
HOWEVER, looking back at it from a different question: what is the impact on kids when moving to better schools at different ages. Age 13 was the key
So, just make sure the kiddos are in a good school by Junior High :)[/quote]
P.S. The experiment was based on a study where people were offered vouchers to move to a higher income area. The anxious ones would be disproportionately likely to take it. If there was ever a study where people were randomly moved, regardless of their preferences, I would believe it more. I think Malcolm Gladwell sites a study where low income kids who won a lottery to go to a better school did no better than those who lost the lottery, but they all did better than those who did not enter the lottery.
