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Rethinking Schools and Inequality by oaquinteror is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This article discusses shifting perspectives on the relationship between schools and inequality over the past 50 years since the influential 1966 Coleman Report. While the Coleman Report concluded that family background played a larger role than schools in academic outcomes, subsequent research emphasized the ways schools can exacerbate inequality by providing more resources and better learning environments to advantaged students. More recent studies challenge this "critical perspective" by finding evidence

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oaquinteror

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