A lot of research has examined the effect of a family’s income on children’s readiness to start school. A new study suggests that adopting a “one size fits all” approach - that is, measuring material hardship, parenting, and school readiness in the same way for white, black, and Hispanic children - may obscure the toll that lower income takes on ethnic minority children as well as the strengths that some families show in coping with poverty-related disadvantages. [click link for full article]