Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date A Response To Paul Tough’s Who Gets To Graduate? The American education system has been criticized for its effect on social and economic inequality, especially in amplifying the gap between the rich and the poor instead of reducing it. In most cases, students from minority racial and economic groups are unable to achieve academically not because they do not have the skills and prior academic required, but because those who graduated are selected based on the education or income achievement of their families. Tough in his article “Who Gets to Graduate?” is right that the US higher education is flawed since it produces graduates based not on...
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