... same curricular and extra-curricular choices, but socioeconomic conditions – students' access to money and their ability to pay for, among other things, Advanced Placement tests, ACT or SAT exams, private tutoring, pay-to-play sports, field trips, and yearbooks – highlight a very real distinction in opportunity. Very often, it is the low SES students who populate remedial and special education ... perform simple, repetitive tasks requiring little or no education; it was not in manufacturers' best interest to cultivate an educated work force. In contrast, the 21st century's shift to ...

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