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and poor school districts. In particular, he analyzes the amount of money spent per child. He finds that in school districts whose taxpayers and property-owners are relatively wealthy, the per-child annual spending is much higher (for example, over $ 20,000 per year per child in one district) than in school districts where poor people live (for example, $ 12,000 per year per child in one district). He asks rhetorically whether it is right that the place of one's birth should determine the quality of one's education.
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The End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools
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provide a much-needed relief from financial instability.
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Alternative Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents
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Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
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Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
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activist, and educator, best known for his books on
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