你以为搬离贫民区就能脱贫吗_BEC初级作文

你以为搬离贫民区就能脱贫吗

The county adopted policies dispersing public housing so that many of the tenants, who were 72 percent black and 16 percent Hispanic, were housed in middle-class, largely white apartment complexes.

蒙哥马利县采用了让公租屋散布在各处的政策。租户中，72%为黑人，16%为西语裔。按照这一政策，这些租户住在以白人为主的中产阶级公寓楼里。

This allowed Schwartz to measure the performance of children from public housing who attended schools with large numbers of well-off white students, against the performance of those who attended schools with largely minority populations and much higher poverty rates.

这样，施瓦茨就能够将居住在公租屋里的孩子的学业表现与大量来自富裕白人家庭的同学进行比较；对照组的孩子上的学校则大部分容纳的是少数族裔学生，而且家庭贫困率要高得多。

The results are striking. The low-income minority children from public housing all started with similar math scores. But after seven years, those who went to schools where fewer than 20 percent of their classmates were poor shot ahead of those who went to schools where 20 to 80 percent of their classmates were poor. This difference in trajectories is shown in Figure 1, in which the green line tracks math scores for poor children (defined as those receiving “free and reduced-priced meals” – a.k.a. FARM recipients) in relatively affluent schools, and the red line tracks math scores for poor children attending schools with much higher percentages of fellow students receiving FARM assistance.