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Race, Class and Gender: Educational Inequalities

Educational inequality makes up a huge part of our educational system. We have kids in poor, inner-city schools that don’t have sufficient plumbing, books, classrooms and teachers. Many of these schools don’t have the funding or facilities to even have these children in schools and yet nothing seems to be done to help these kids get out of the run down buildings that we have put them in. Their lives seem to be predetermined by what schools they attend, if they live in a rich district they will get the education they deserve and if they live in a poor district they will receive a education that you would expect to see in a third world country. These are the educational inequalities that we see all across America.
Educational inequalities are created through many institutionalized educational practices. One way educational inequalities are created is by the decentralization of school. Schools are organized at a local and state level and funding is locally derived. The res...

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