What Theory Points Out That US Education Is Only Theoretically

question 4

Multiple Choice

What theory points out that US education is only theoretically a path out of poverty, given the dramatic and systemic inequalities?

• A) Functionalism
• B) Conflict theory
• C) Symbolic interactionism
• D) None of the above

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The distribution likelihood of a statistical value gathered from multiple samples from a given population.

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Sample Mean

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