... to inadequate school resources, students from low-income families are faced with trying to learn without the basic tools which facilitate learning in today's society. Many impoverished families cannot afford the necessary school supplies their children need much less computers in their home, which are becoming increasingly necessary to succeed in school. The child who has been exposed from an ... early age to tools that encourage learning will have a great advantage when they enter kindergarten over those whose family cannot even afford books. Unlike middle class whites and blacks, poor...

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... they are doing well in life might have taken them awhile to get to where they are now but at least they made it Rachael Ray, Halle Berry, Bill Gates, Henry Ford and Michael Dell didn't go to college or they dropped out and they are very successful till this day. As soon as students leave college they are going to ... to pay your bills or anything else. Tuition charges have doubled making it harder for students to even go to college. Just because other students can afford college doesn't mean that the other students can afford to go they who can't just raise the cost of a college tuition...

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... other groups that were generally underrepresented at the highest levels of business and in other professions. Affirmative action also included financial assistance to members of minorities who could not otherwise afford to attend colleges and universities. Affirmative action has allowed many minority members to achieve new prominence and success. At the end of the 20th century, the policy of affirmative action ... originated in the 1830s and 1840s, when a new generation of education reformers attacked the tradition of disjointed and localized education. Prominent American educators, suc...

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