1. Inequalities in education have historically manifested through class, gender, and ethnicity. Working classes, women, and ethnic minorities have faced exclusion, segregation, and lack of assimilation in school systems. 2. Cultural capital, or the correspondence between a student's family culture and school culture, plays a role in inequality, as do income differences which impact opportunity costs of education. However, determinism is avoided as some students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed. 3. Teachers have different expectations of students based on social class that impact classroom experiences - working class students face more discipline while wealthy students are encouraged to think independently. Inequality is also present in tracking students into vocational or academic paths.