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If there is one exception to that, then poverty is not the (sole) cause of the difference. I agree that there is a strong correlation between poverty and low performance in most cases, but the existence of outliers proves that it is not a causal relationship. AVID produces a DVD of success stories of their students. There is one story told by a homeless boy who goes back to school and ends up at Georgetown University. Can't get much poorer than homeless. Did this student's economics change? No, his support at school changed.