The Opportunity Gap - Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education? - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 01 Jul 11ProPublica analyzed new data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights along with other federal education data to examine whether states provide students equal access to programs - such as Advanced Placement or higher-level math and sciences classes - that researchers say will help them later in life. We found that in some states, high-poverty schools are less likely than wealthier schools to have students enrolled those programs.