Teaching kids about how the brain works may improve their earnings as adults


By AGENCY
  • Family
  • Monday, 03 Nov 2025

First grade teacher Claudia Rojas helps Madeline Torres with a writing assignment at Momentous School. Photo: Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News/TNS

Dallas students from an elementary school where at least 80% of students come from low-income families are projected to earn more than their high-income peers over a lifetime, thanks to education built on brain science, according to a study by the University of Texas at Dallas Center for BrainHealth and the Momentous Institute.

A case study tracked the progress of 73 alumni from the Momentous School, a private laboratory school serving students in prekindergarten through fifth grade in Oak Cliff.

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