Barrack Obama gave a speech on income inequality and stated “The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe.” Greg J. Duncan is a distinguished professor at University of California, Irvine and who wrote a paper discussing the income inequality and its effect on education. He found that since 1970s the gap between reading and mathematics skills has increased dramatically in low and high income families (Duncan 2014). A student who comes from a high income family increases one’s SAT score by 125 points compared 75 points for a student coming white family. Family income has more to do with one’s academic success than one’s racial
Barrack Obama gave a speech on income inequality and stated “The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe.” Greg J. Duncan is a distinguished professor at University of California, Irvine and who wrote a paper discussing the income inequality and its effect on education. He found that since 1970s the gap between reading and mathematics skills has increased dramatically in low and high income families (Duncan 2014). A student who comes from a high income family increases one’s SAT score by 125 points compared 75 points for a student coming white family. Family income has more to do with one’s academic success than one’s racial