Education and Class

• What is The Great Gatsby Curve? | The White House

  As teachers are blamed for not educating children for the many opportunities presumed to be awaiting them, just on the other side of high test scores:

  “The curve shows that children from poor families are less likely to improve their economic status as adults in countries where income inequality was higher – meaning wealth was concentrated in fewer hands – around the time those children were growing up.”

  tags: social class

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