%0 Journal Article %T Too small to fail %A Chad Klochko %J Medical Student Research Journal %D 2013 %I Michigan State University %X On December 7, 2012, Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote a compelling article about people in poverty in the United States. The article, which appeared in the New York Times, describes the plight of young children who are failing in school and who are not acquiring the skills needed to move forward in their education, and tragically, in some cases, parents are allowing them to fail. %U http://msrj.chm.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/w13msrj2013-17-18.pdf