Sentences with phrase «equal academic ability»

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

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This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is operating through disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets and schools to undermine one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.

This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is undermining one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.