May 17, 2001
Lessons Learned: Fighting Inequity in Schools
By WENDY KOPPFoundations, corporations, and individual donors have poured billions of dollars into efforts to overhaul the nation's educational system, but they have not yet succeeded in solving a pernicious problem: the disparity in achievement between students in affluent neighborhoods and those in poor ones.
By the time children from low-income areas turn 9, their performance in mathematics is already one to two grade levels behind that of 9-year-olds in
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