Education and Class

• Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33-country study finds – The Hechinger Report

  “A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15-year-old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids. The researchers calculated that this educational content difference accounts for a third of the achievement gap, on average”

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