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Is the American Dream Dying? Or just changing? (Links to an external site.)
Describe the correlations that you see and analyze the relationship between poverty and education as it relates
to the American Dream. How do the economic changes in Detroit shape the educational outcomes? What does
this tell us about education as both provide possibilities for economic mobility, and also constrain students’
possibilities? What impact does this have on class inequality as a whole?
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