Greg Toppo, top education news reporter for USA Today, highlights a ground-breaking study in his piece on December 8th that provides incontrovertible evidence, perhaps for the very first time, on how poverty afflicts children's brains. Toppo reported on a study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience that found poverty affects the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is critical for problem-solving and creativity.
This study emphasizes the devastating effects of poverty on children's achievement. But we must be...
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