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A 500-pound gorilla is trying to enter our discussion of the standards for equal opportunity to learn for all American children. The gorilla represents the most serious inequities among American schools, inequities that most of us know exist. These inequities among schools reflect fundamental inequalities in the distribution of power and resources in American society.
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Biddle, B.J. (2014). Poverty in Schools and Educational Failure. In: The Unacknowledged Disaster. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-521-2_6
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