Education, Inequality and the One Percent
Geography reveals just how divided we have become. There are places from which it appears almost impossible to succeed educationally and others from where it appears very hard to fail. On any...
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Danny Dorling is a Professor at the University of Oxford. He went to various schools in Oxford and to University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield and New Zealand. With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world.
Much of Danny鈥檚 work is available open access (see www.dannydorling.org). His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent books include, 鈥淭he No-nonsense guide to equality鈥, 鈥淭he Visualization of Social Spatial Structure鈥 and 鈥淭he Population of the UK鈥; in 2013 鈥淯nequal Health鈥, 鈥淭he 32 Stops鈥 and 鈥淧opulation Ten Billion鈥 and in 2014 鈥淎ll that is Solid: the Great Housing Disaster.鈥
Geography reveals just how divided we have become. There are places from which it appears almost impossible to succeed educationally and others from where it appears very hard to fail. On any...