A North Carolina lawmaker complained that formulas for distributing federal education money favored big-city districts at the expense of poor students in small towns.

卡罗莱纳州北部的一位议员也抱怨说，教育资金对大城市的倾斜，是以牺牲小城镇的学校为代价的。

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SAT scores began dropping in 1963; today, on average, 30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

SAT 分数从1963年开始下降；今天，平均有30%的学生没有在四年内完成高中学业，这一数字在贫穷的城市社区达到了50%。

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Students can match the performance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

学生的表现可以与和他们同龄的外国学生相媲美，但美国的教育机构确实为来自富裕家庭和贫困家庭的学生提供了充分发挥其潜力的机会。

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In fact, ideologically he is something of an old-time liberal himself (he devoted a great deal of energy to boosting the number of poor students at Harvard).

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But the culture in the US supports parents aggressively blaming teachers for the poor performance of students, and students end up feeling entitled to better grades for poor performance.

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He welcomes the latest report card because it highlights the progress of poor and minority students.

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