MIT study links family income, test scores, brain anatomy
Boston (UPI) Apr 17, 2015 - It goes without saying that poor children aren't born less intelligent. But a long list of studies show children in low-income households consistently rank below their more well-off peers when it comes to standardized testing and other measures of academic achievement. A new study goes a step further, linking poverty to changes in the adolescent brain. When researchers at MIT scanned th ... more

---