How to improve student learning outcomes

Past research on student learning outcomes indicated that students from low socioeconomic status were slower in acquiring academic skills than their counterparts from a higher socioeconomic status.
Such findings were considered gospel truth, to the detriment of the students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Indeed American Psychological Association concluded that low socioeconomic status in “childhood is related to poor cognitive development, language, memory, socioemotional processing, and consequently poor income and health in adulthood.”