Focus on Social Problems
Linda Darling-Hammond, “Inequality and School Resources: What It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap”
What was the Williams v. California case about?
How are public schools funded in the U.S.? What is the primary form of funding?
In most states what is the ratio between per pupil spending in the richest and poorest districts?
In California how much do high-poverty and low-poverty districts spend per pupil?
In California how much do high-minority and low-minority districts spend per pupil?
In the U.S. how many children live in poverty? How does that compare to most European nations?
What are U.S. schools asked to do that those in European countries do not?
In Finland what percent of children:
are enrolled in government-subsidized day care programs until they go to school at seven years?
attend tuition-free preschool at the age of six?
10. In the U.S. in 2000 what percent of Black students attended predominantly minority schools? When was the low point in that measure?
