Education has long been embraced as one of the best ways to combat inequality. Yet, this faith in the power of education has begun to falter. There is mounting evidence that improving our education system won’t do much to fix inequality.

Modern inequality isn’t driven by the gap between college-educated workers and high school grads. All the action is at the top of the income ladder, where the extremely rich have pulled away from everyone else.

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教育，長期以來一直被奉為消除不平等的最佳途徑之一。然而，對教育的力量這種信念已經開始動搖。有越來越多的證據表明，改進我們的教育體制對于解決不平等收效甚微。

當代的不平等并非是受過大學教育的工作者與高中畢業生之間差距過大所致。問題的關鍵在收入階梯的頂端，那些極其富有者已經甩開了其他所有人。

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