A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession. South Africa: Broken and unequal education that perpetuates poverty and inequality. South Africa's education system, characterized by crumbling infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms and relatively poor academic performance, perpetuates inequality and, as a result, fails too many children, with the poor bearing the brunt affected. As with poverty, there are many ways to measure inequality. . The WDI World Development Indicators databases present a wide range of inequality indicators such as the Gini index and the share of consumption or income held by each quintile. The measures offer different ways to capture and report certain aspects of income: “The extraordinary income inequality in the United States diminishes opportunities for low-income families and for children of color,” said Murnane, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson, research professor of social sciences. Education and Society at the Graduate School of Education. Rising inequality has led to growing gaps in education,