How Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty

How Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty

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Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools — things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields — and this has a real impact on the potential of students. Kandice Sumner sees the disparity every day in her classroom in Boston. 

In this inspiring TEDxBeaconStreet talk, Kandice Sumner asks us to face facts — and change them.

Watch the full video below.

How America’s Public School Keep Kids in Poverty – Kandice Sumner, TEDxBeaconStreet | November 2015

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