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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/what-causes-achievement-gaps by Kenya Downs 12/8/16 PBS NEWS} | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/what-causes-achievement-gaps by Kenya Downs 12/8/16 PBS NEWS} | ||
More Americans acknowledge wealth inequality-based achievement gaps — and are willing to create policies to combat them — than race-based disparities in education, according to new research published in the Educational Researcher. Respondents were also more prepared to explain the sources of these wealth-based gaps, from parenting and student motivation to injustice and discrimination. | More Americans acknowledge wealth inequality-based achievement gaps — and are willing to create policies to combat them — than race-based disparities in education, according to new research published in the Educational Researcher. Respondents were also more prepared to explain the sources of these wealth-based gaps, from parenting and student motivation to injustice and discrimination. | ||
=====The U.S. has Made Great Progress at Increasing Economic Inequality===== | |||
[https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/09/the-u-s-has-made-great-progress-at-increasing-economic-inequality/ by Rick Baum 9/6/23 COUNTERPUNCH] | |||
One of the more impressive accomplishments of the United States in recent decades is how it has achieved greater economic inequality in line with what Marx expected from a capitalist economy. There are periods of setbacks—in which economic inequality is reduced–followed by improvements resulting in even higher levels of inequality. | |||
