There is evidence that economic inequality is a large contributor to the overall middling performance by U.S. students when it comes to international comparisons, with a 2013 study suggesting that if our students came from an overall
similar economic divide as other first - world countries, our ranking would rise considerably.
Not exact matches
This creates what I'll call The Fundraising Inequality, a systematic
divide between large and small entities
similar to the
economic concept of income inequality.
Analysts
divided students into four socio -
economic levels and found that U.S. students in the second highest quarter were outperformed by students in
similar income levels in 15 other countries in science and 24 countries in math.