In the early days, Cassady had ambitions to write, but a rudimentary education compounded by an inability to concentrate on tasks requiring sustained effort meant his attempts (mostly fragments of autobiography, collected in 1971 as "The First Third") lack refinement — even the refinement required to make them read "raw" — and structure.
In 2011, leading poverty experts Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane jointly edited Whither Opportunity?, a compendium of scholarly work documenting how the US public education system compounds, rather than compensates for, large and growing societal inequities.
Current U.S. education policies compound, rather than alleviate, these massive income disparities, putting equality of opportunity even further out of reach for large numbers of low-income American students.
A lack of basic services such as water, health care and education is compounded by poverty, violence, and the highest HIV/AIDS rate outside of sub-Saharan Africa.
A lack of basic services such as water, health care and education are compounded by poverty and violence, locking children into a cycle of deprivation and abuse.
A lack of basic services such as water, health care and education is compounded by poverty and violence, locking children into a cycle of deprivation and abuse.
4 Especially in developing countries, the advantage of school-based education is compounding as the enrolment of the official age-group for a given level rapidly increases.
But in the absence of access to effective sex education, in situations compounded by poverty, gender inequality and violence, must women and girls simply pay the price with unwanted pregnancies?
"They've been teaching for the tests all their career," she says.The problem is compounded by education systems that are out of touch with parents' demands for more English instruction.
