After all the dark suffering in and outside of school, students of charter schools who are not pushed out—particularly at those schools that serve dark, low-income communities—do not graduate from college at dramatically higher rates than the same demographic of students who attend traditional public schools. According to the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard University, the American dream, if there ever was one for dark people, is fading fast. Children have a 50 percent chance of earning more or the same as their parents. A half century ago, that possibility was 90 percent. Even a
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