Who Gets to Graduate?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Who Gets to Graduate?
Paul Tough, New York Times, May 28, 2014

So this is part of what we're up against when we're trying to support a more egalitarian system of education: "whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor — how much money his or her parents make.... it will always be the case that the kids who have need are going to have been denied a lot of the academic preparation and opportunities for identity formation that the affluent kids have been given." I can speak to that from experience. More...