School attendance zones are an example of a system that perpetuates racial and
socioeconomic inequality because of the reciprocal relationship between housing and school segregation.
Not exact matches
Because mean child IQ scores at age 6.5 years, verbal IQ scores in particular, were higher among children in the intervention than the control group, 16 we might expect that
socioeconomic inequalities in child IQ would be widened in the intervention group, owing to the increase in observed
inequalities in breastfeeding.
The findings likely come at a crucial time in examining income
inequality because Harvard researcher Robert Putnam and others have found it is much more difficult today than it was 50 years ago for children of low
socioeconomic status to advance up the ladder.
Whether the change is needed to match disruption in the workplace and consumer marketplace, or
because of rampant
inequalities in the system is somewhat inconsequential — only somewhat
because inequalities stemming from
socioeconomic disparity are in desperate need of institutional address —
because both are keeping students from reaching their full potential.
Such schools educate mainly low - income students, which renders
socioeconomic disparities less salient...
Because students and teachers need not constantly confront
inequalities that are the product of large social forces, the embrace of active acculturation can proceed without apology to beneficiaries or benefactors.
Basically, these schools are getting high scores primarily
because of ethnic and
socioeconomic inequalities.