Which statement explains why youth from families with 200,000 or more income score more than 300 points higher on the SAT than youth from families with an income of 20,000 or less?
a. Social Darwinism shows that families who have high earnings are more intelligent and more deserving than families with low incomes.
b. Poor White people are physically and intellectually inferior to poor minorities, therefore, they cannot raise themselves out of poverty.
c. The end of No Child Left Behind means that schools in poor neighborhoods will not receive the funding they need to improve.
d. The many benefits of economic privilege include better nutrition, schools, medical care, and technology.
Question 2
The funding of public schools through local property taxes can be considered discriminatory because
a. poor children and rich children in the same district benefit equally from tax money.
b. senior citizens whose children are grown must still pay taxes that support the local schools.
c. rich school districts can spend more than poor ones on each student.
d. rich donor school districts have to subsidize poor taker school districts.
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