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  2. History of courtship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, courting was the term for socializing between unmarried men and women. When the socializing between a man and woman included an explicit intent to eventually marry, it was called courtship. Men and women met through families and friends, in church, and at school.

  3. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System - Wikipedia

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    In a 2009 review for The Atlantic, Sandra Tsing Loh stated: "The experience of reading (and re-reading) Class is akin to wiping goggles one didn't know were fogged". [1] The book review website The Pequod rated the book a 9.5 (out of 10.0) and called it "Paul Fussell's most sustained work of genius, a razor-sharp and bitterly savage exploration ...

  4. Educational inequality - Wikipedia

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    Educational Inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including but not limited to school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, physical facilities and technologies, to socially excluded communities. These communities tend to be historically disadvantaged and oppressed.

  5. Education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Other explanations offered for the racial achievement gap include: social class, institutional racism, lower quality of schools and teachers in minority communities, and civil injustice. Most authors mention several such factors as influential on outcomes, both in the United States [ 234 ] and worldwide.

  6. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. [1] [2] Today, many textbooks are published in both print and ...

  7. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Critics argue that class rank is more a measure of one's peers than of one's self. The top 10% rule adds racial diversity only because schools are still highly racially segregated because of residential patterns. [147] To some extent, the class rank rule has the same effect as traditional affirmative action. [147]

  8. Social class in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Social class in the United Kingdom. The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. [ 1][ 2] British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution ...

  9. History - Wikipedia

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    History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [ 1] is the systematic study and documentation of human past. [ 2][ 3] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and ...