Are American schools making inequality worse?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/aera-aas092815.php

Public Release: 30-Sep-2015
Are American schools making inequality worse?
American Educational Research Association

The answer appears to be yes. Schooling plays a surprisingly large role in short-changing the nation's most economically disadvantaged students of critical math skills, according to a study published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Findings from the study indicate that unequal access to rigorous mathematics content is widening the gap in performance on a prominent international math literacy test between low- and high-income students, not only in the United States but in countries worldwide.

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