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...Eden, because class inequalities are already at work. According to a 2007 report by the nonprofit Sutton Trust, cognitive test scores of bright 3-year-olds from the poorest British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
...During his second summer in the country, Sheffield experienced institutionalized violence firsthand, when he was beaten by members of the Buenos Aires police force. Having conducted interviews with around 50 junior police officers in Argentina, the Pforzheimer resident and social studies concentrator concluded that an increasing “gap between cops on the street and cops in the office” has put police in states such as Argentina and Brazil out of the reach of governmental control. Although he criticized the systematic violence occurring underthe direction of upper-level police officials, Sheffield acknowledged that most police violence resulted...
...little evidence of belt-tightening in Washington. While the rest of the country switches into austerity mode, there's almost a boomtown feel in the capital, where a federal spending spree is rapidly driving the federal deficit to record heights. For the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the gap between revenue collected by the government vs. what it spent was already lofty at $455 billion - an amount equal to nearly 7% of GDP, making it the largest deficit since the end of World...
...keynote address on Friday afternoon, O’Connor defended the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger, the landmark 2003 case upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School, but also emphasized the necessity of reducing the achievement gap between black and white students beginning in early education...
...achievement gap surfaces in early childhood and continues throughout high school, college, and adulthood, O’Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...