Income Inequality: 81=3.5 billion. #What?
Imagine living in the United States during a revamp of the Great Depression, or a period during a severe poverty-stricken economic drought. You would see Americans going crazy, calling for change and being fed up that they are deeper in poverty than usual. Yet, the calls for change and help that would have been made […]
College in Context: Racial and Socioeconomic Inequality in America’s Public High Schools
The achievement gap, defined as “any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students” is one that is most commonly measured in ethnic and socioeconomic terms. Closely related to the opportunity gap, which refers to the unequal or inequitable distribution of resources, the achievement gap is the result […]