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Education was historically considered a great equalizer in American society, capable of lifting less advantaged children and improving their chances for success as adults. But a body of recently published scholarship suggests that the achievement gap between rich and poor children is widening, a development that threatens to dilute education’s leveling effects.
It is a well-known fact that children from affluent families tend to do better in school. Yet the income divide has received far less attention from policy makers and government officials than gaps in student accomplishment by race.
Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period.
Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show - NYTimes.com
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The changes are tectonic, a result of social and economic processes unfolding over many decades. The data from most of these studies end in 2007 and 2008, before the recession’s full impact was felt. Researchers said that based on experiences during past recessions, the recent downturn was likely to have aggravated the trend.
“With income declines more severe in the lower brackets, there’s a good chance the recession may have widened the gap,” Professor Reardon said. In the study he led, researchers analyzed 12 sets of standardized test scores starting in 1960 and ending in 2007. He compared children from families in the 90th percentile of income — the equivalent of around $160,000 in 2008, when the study was conducted — and children from the 10th percentile, $17,500 in 2008. By the end of that period, the achievement gap by income had grown by 40 percent, he said, while the gap between white and black students, regardless of income, had shrunk substantially.
This trend was already well in evidence several years ago - before the bubble burst. We need to, first and foremost, stop denying that the exorbitant income disparity has severe consequences - especially since the gleeful public funding cuts took effect - and start addressing real consequences. Almost 50% of the people are at or below poverty. The cyclical implications of that fact - how this will impact our society for decades to come - is indeed staggering.
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#1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:42 AM ESTsince the gleeful public funding cuts took effect - and start addressing real consequences
I don't know when I was in grammer school back around the time dirt was invented we always had enough paste to eat...now as over the years wit cuts cuts cuts the teachers have to buy the paste...and the stuff they get is toxic...
Seriously the divide is growing and to prove it we are lagging in all areas...
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10366521-us-workers-behind-korea-uk-germany-19-others-in-science-and-math
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"Laws will be wisely formed and honestly administered in proportion as those who form and administer them are wise and honest; whence it becomes expedient for promoting the public happiness that those persons whom nature has endowed with genius and virtue should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens; and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance. But the indigence of the greater number disabling them from so educating at their own expense those of their children whom nature has fitly formed and disposed to become useful instruments for the public, it is better that such should be sought for and educated at the common expense of all, than that the happiness of all should be confined to the weak or wicked." --Thomas Jefferson: Diffusion of Knowledge Bill, 1779.
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Damn.
I keep getting into these debates. I know they lie about them. They claim only 16% or 20% of americans who became millionaires or billionaires were inherited.
Its just Malarkey, How do they work it out? If you grow your wealth a certain amount, then you did not inherit it. That is how they do it.
They do not want to discuss the inheritance divide and also they do not want to talk about the cronyism on how they got the wealth in the first place.
Just read " War is a racket", You can see the main way. Its usually swindling or stealing in your face. When we see executive income party, they claim its not theft. It is theft. Just the law protects them. The law is wrong.
Regulate executive income down. Save America.
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/09/22/are-we-entering-the-age-of-inherited-wealth/
If you need to see the rich folk in action?
-->Yahoo Censors Bill Maher's Criticism of Citizens United
On the seeded page you can see the edited version, and the part that Yahoo cut out.
The logical conclusion is that Yahoo scrubbed Bill Maher’s Citizens United comments. This is another example of the corporate media trying to keep Americans in the dark. They no problem with censorship in the name of maintaining political power and profits.
No matter what they paid him, here’s hoping that Maher never does a special for Yahoo again.
I hope people let Yahoo know they don't like this kind of censorship!
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