Sorry, Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School (VICE)
▻https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evbgqk/sorry-being-born-rich-still-leads-to-success-more-than-working-hard-in-school
What is striking about Goldthorpe’s study is that if we treat educational attainment in absolute terms, then decades of investments have yielded unprecedented results, but if we treat education in relative terms, then we find that the correlation between individuals’ class origins and their educational attainment hasn’t budged. Policies designed to develop children’s and students’ educational potentials – from pre-school programs for disadvantaged kids to minority entry quotas into elite universities – overlook the root cause of the problem.