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Class and Schools

Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap

by Richard Rothstein

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Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. In this book, the author points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school.

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