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Educational inequality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Educational inequality occurs where the quality of education available to pupils is closely related to their class or status. A common view among scholars addressing this topic is that rather than su...
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Education and the inequality debate ; By Jared Bernstein Lawrence Mishel; February 8, 2007 ... In fact, there is no evidence that the recent growth in income inequality is due to increased rewards to education. ... Policy makers and analysts must avoid reducing the inequality debate to a sole explanation regarding education.
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Education is seen to be the great panacea by which inequality and poverty can be reduced, a national investment in human capital now that people costs comprise about two-thirds of the cost of any product (see causal models of education's role in status attainment). ... EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY...
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Australia urgently needs to debate and resolve some fundamental questions about the future of school education. ... Is education a positional good, which may be purchased to the advantage of some and the disadvantage of others? Or is it a public good, which governments have a responsibility to provide and quality-assure?
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"I really believe education is the biggest social justice issue facing our country right now. I think the inequity of the education gap across race and class lines is both really significant and really appalling.
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Keywords: Education inequality; income inequality; economic growth.; ... Audrey Siew Kim Lim & Kam Ki Tang, 2006. "Education Inequality, Human Capital Inequality And The Kuznets Curve," CAMA Working Papers 2006-08, Australian National University, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis.
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It identifies wider inequality in society as the root cause and says the solution is to address the education system itself, rather than merely targeting the individuals who are "failing" within it.
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