How the Opportunity Gap is Constructed

How the Opportunity Gap is Constructed

Share your response to each of the major building blocks of unequal and inadequate educational outcomes in the United States. Describe your understanding of the central/dominate issue(s) and your perception of a clear concise solution (remember funding is not always the first or only answer).

3. Inadequate systems for providing high-quality teachers and teaching to all children in all communities

4) Rationing of high-quality curriculum through tracking and interschool disparities

5) Factory-model school design that have created dysfunctional learning environments for students and unsupportive settings for strong teaching

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Inequality in the allocation of school resources is usually made politically with an of increasing resegregation of schools. Inadequate systems for providing high quality teachers end in the hiring of unqualified teachers. Contrary to what most people tend to think, the United States has a lot of highly qualified teachers. Therefore, the hiring of unqualified teachers is…