Assess the view that poverty is the main cause of social class difference in educational achievement

Poverty has a great impact upon social class difference in educational achievement. Homelessness causes tiredness and lack of concentration in school, which has a negative affect upon educational achievement. Douglas wrote, in his book 'The Home and the School' that working class parents are often uninterested in their children's education and therefore do not encourage them to do well, or congratulate them when they do. Also, it has been found that working class fathers seldom …showed first 75 words of 565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 565 total…of social class difference in educational achievement, although they can prove this wrong, such as in the case of 'Black Girls in a London Comprehensive School'. This was an article written by Margaret Fuller, who did an experiment into a group of black, working class girls who were labelled as people who would get none, or little qualifications. They proved this label wrong and did very well. Also, the research done was qualitative, not quantitative.