There are many different factors that affect education. One of these factors is socio-economic status. Children who attend school in a wealthier community receive a better education than those in poor communities. In poor communities, students' education is not only affected by lack of resources, but also by teaching methods and philosophies. Students in poor, urban schools do not receive as equal an education as their wealthier, suburban counterparts. In an educational journal, Anyon ("Social") provides the reader with the idea that there are four different types of schools, working middle-class schools, middle-class schools, affluent vocational schools, and professional schools. elite for executives, after observing five schools. Popular schools are staffed by working-class parents, with less than a third of the fathers qualified and the majority of them being semi-skilled or unskilled. “About 15 percent of fathers were unemployed…about 15 percent of families in each school are at or below the federal “poverty” level…the incomes of the majority of families…are typical of 38.6 percent of families in the United States. States” (Anyon, “Social”). In a more recent study by Anyon (“What,” 69), she states that currently, relatively few urban poor students make it past ninth grade. Graduation rates at large, inner-city comprehensive schools are extremely low. In fourteen of these New York City schools, for example, only 10 to 20 percent of ninth graders in 1996 graduated four years later. Even though low-income individuals desperately need a college degree to find a decent job, only 7 percent of them earn a bachelor's degree by age twenty-six. So, as far as...... middle of article...... gation rules LI: race and wealth divisions are increasing in schools, denying minorities an equal education. "Tribune Business News: 1. August 21, 2006. Print. Palardy, G. and R. Rumberger. Does Desegregation Matter?: Social Composition on Academic Achievement in Southern High Schools Np: University of North Carolina, 2005. Print.Richmond, Paulette Natasha “Wealth and success. Gaps: An Examination of Virginia Middle Schools." Ph.D. Old Dominion University, 2007. Print. United States – Virginia. Saporito, Salvatore and Sohoni, Deenesh. " Mapping educational inequalities: Concentrations of poverty among poor and Minorities in Public Schools." Social Forces 85.3 (2007): 1227-53. Print. Stewart, Charles T., Jr. "Wealth and Income Inequality in a Technologically Advanced Society." The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 27.4 ( 2002) : 495-512..