This chapter examines how income inequality in Canada has contributed to an
“achievement gap” between students from lower and higher socioeconomic backgrounds in
Canada. The impacts of socioeconomic inequality in the preschool and elementary years
can lead to significant differences in academic achievement between children from affluent
and lower income families. The chapter surveys existing research regarding low
socioeconomic status and childhood academic outcomes and then explores structural and …

This series publishes monographs and edited collections that investigate relations between
education policy and social inequality. Submissions that provoke new and generative ways
of thinking about and acting on relations between education policy and social inequality are
particularly invited from early career, emerging and established scholars. While education
policy has often been understood as having a normative function and is proposed as the
solution to social inequality, the series is interested in how education policy frames, creates …