+40% gap in test scores between rich and poor children

"Percentage change since 1976 in the test-score gap between the children of America's richest and poorest deciles: +40"

Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.), "Harper's Index," Harper's 326, no. 1956 (2013): 15

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