Low income and cognitive development in the Uk

This report for the Sutton Trust is remarkable for not having visited studies that already concluded that low income led to cultures of disadvantage and poor scholastic attainment. The strategies deigned to ameliorate the gap in cognitive development are at least 100 years old. Inadequate parenting can be translated as inadequate mothers and cultural deprivation. The approach has failed in the past because education, as Bernstein said, cannot compensate for society. What needs to be tackled urgently is the root of the problem, income inequality.