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  1. Nov 2020
    1. In addition to school funding, another significant obstacle to the academic success oflow-SES students is that parent and community contributions, which are instrumental to studentsuccess, tend to be lower in low-income areas

      This could be a subclaim because it adds on another barrier of what academic inequality causes. They're claiming of how parent and community contributions are needed for student success.

    2. One notable barrier to the academic success of students from low-income households isthe limited school resources in low-income areas

      I think this is a subclaim because it ties in with the main claim of how there's education inequality in America. This subclaim introduces a barrier of what inequality causes due to limited school resources.

    3. Programs across the country are being created with low-income families in mind,and with great success. These programs offer the most promising path forward in endingeducation inequality because they focus on external factors that affect low-income students inaddition to the schools themselves.

      This is the second sub-claim. This claim is against educational funding. This claim is explain that there are programs that consider ,ow income families. There are ways for students to get a education by having some of those learning programs.

    4. Wright explain their study of teacher biases, which indicatedthat “students’ skills come to reflect teachers’ initial perceptions” (356). Ready and Wrightconfirm Gorski’s theory, mentioning that teachers often mistakenly use indicators of social class(such as tendency to use standard English, mannerisms, cleanliness, and clothing) to estimatestudents’ academic preparedness (337). I

      This is a sub-claim to the first point about classism. She explains that classism come with different factors. But in the claim she is explaining that teachers and supervision shouldn't automatically categized students because teachers could base it off of a bias. The evidence is highlighted that teachers are likely to stereotype somebody by the way they talk or dress.

    1. Digital resurrection has brought about dramatic changes and controversial debates in regards to the celebrity image in the media and the relationship between cultural icons and the public. It is a morally peculiar practice sparked by the rise of nostalgia in our postmodernist society, altering the mortal conditions of those who have achieved celebrity status.

      This makes a callback to the thesis statement from the start of the essay and also answers the question that it had thought to achieve earlier. It addresses some of the points that the question had asked as well and keeps it short and simple.