American City & County: If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then children from low-income households would need 30,000 pictures to “catch up” to their counterparts in middle- and high-income families. Research has found that children from low-income families are exposed to 30 million fewer words than their more affluent counterparts by the time they reach age four, a handicap that can follow students throughout the course of their academic and natural lives. This gap, referred to as “the word gap,” is being addressed by local government leaders in Providence, R.I.
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