The latest chapter in our effort to understand the realities of inequality is an immensely important one. Extremely capable students of society are beginning to lay bare the manner in which the very workings of the system create inequities and thwart the drive toward equal opportunity.... Perhaps it is a mark of our maturity that men of deep commitment to social values can and will turn to the arduous kind of analysis represented in this study. We owe a great debt to the authors of thisvolume.
John W. Gardner
This is an important, rare, and elegantbook. It is important in that, utilizingrich data available for a sample of Michigan school districts and individual schools,convincing evidence is brought to bear regarding the interelationship of pupils'socioeconomic status (SES), quality of available school services, pupils' achievements, and pupils' postschool performance The book is rare in that it addresses a question of wide concern in a fashion that makes it comprehensible to lay leader and scholar alike This book is elegant in its methodology and economy of data presentation.
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