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Education

iemitsu

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3. Inequality and poverty are at the root of this disparity.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 08:24 AM

May 2014

Every study of educational performance, done in the last 50 years, has concluded that income was the best indicator of success in the classroom. Our nation's increasing level of inequality and reform movements designed to segregate high achieving students from their less successful peers are the problem.

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Education: Worse Than Ever in the US [View all] unhappycamper May 2014 OP

If you read the original article carefully, you'll see the flaw... Sancho May 2014 #1

Funding? Smarmie Doofus May 2014 #2

Inequality and poverty are at the root of this disparity. iemitsu May 2014 #3