America doesn’t have an education problem, it has a class problem

*This has obvious implications in the Latino community. As much as we may strive for educational improvement there are systemic issues that need to be addressed. This from the article:  ” … a poor Moroccan kid in France is much more likely to move into the middle class than a child born into a poor family in Mississippi.” VL

By Matt Phillips, Quartz

Since the 1950s, American society has increasingly been segregated by socioeconomic status, with the proportion of the country living in middle-income territory steadily shrinking since 1970. The effects clearly have spilled over into schools.

“Relative to 40 years ago, high-income kids are more likely to be surrounded by other high-income kids, low-income kids by other low-income kids,” Greg Duncan, an academic who has studied the interaction of income segregation and equality, said in a speech earlier this year.

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