SAT Reading & Writing · Rhetorical Synthesis
A student has researched the Moving to Opportunity housing experiment and compiled the following notes: - The program randomly offered…
A student has researched the Moving to Opportunity housing experiment and compiled the following notes:
- The program randomly offered some low-income families housing vouchers to help them move to different neighborhoods.
- Families that received vouchers moved to lower-poverty neighborhoods at different rates.
- Economic outcomes for the adult parents in the study were limited overall.
- Children who moved to lower-poverty neighborhoods at a younger age had higher earnings later in life, according to follow-up analyses.
- Children who moved at an older age did not show the same later earnings gains.
- The duration and timing of a child's exposure to a new neighborhood appeared to matter for the outcomes observed.
The student wants to highlight that a family's age at the time of moving shaped how much the program ultimately helped. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- The program randomly offered some low-income families housing vouchers to help them move to different neighborhoods.
- Families that received vouchers moved to lower-poverty neighborhoods at different rates.
- Economic outcomes for the adult parents in the study were limited overall.
- Children who moved to lower-poverty neighborhoods at a younger age had higher earnings later in life, according to follow-up analyses.
- Children who moved at an older age did not show the same later earnings gains.
- The duration and timing of a child's exposure to a new neighborhood appeared to matter for the outcomes observed.
The student wants to highlight that a family's age at the time of moving shaped how much the program ultimately helped. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Answer and explanation
Answer: C: While children who moved to lower-poverty neighborhoods at a younger age had higher later earnings, children who moved at an older age did not show the same gains, indicating that timing shaped the…
The goal specifically requires connecting age at the time of the move to differing outcomes, and C is the only choice that draws exactly that contrast, younger movers gaining, older movers not, and names timing as the operative factor. A and D describe program mechanics without addressing outcome differences by age. B names a separate finding about parents that doesn't address the age-related question at all.
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