Educational Inequality In Education

This paper will seek to discuss the significance of educational inequality and how it affects those who live in the United States. According to the textbook, education is a social institution through which a society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms (Strayer). The result of this worldwide educational inequality is a social concern for many countries; including the United States (Strayer). This paper will provide insight on the disadvantages of educational inequality through the achievement gap, location, and one’s race.

For everyone to benefit from equal educational opportunity that inequality that plague our school must be confronted. Because the way funding are assigned hurt poor minority students. But in regard to study conducted by Fordham institute educational funding is given relatively to staff allocations, "staff allocations, program-specific formulae, squeaky-wheel politics, property wealth, and any number of other factors that have little to do with the needs of students (McClure, Wiener, Roza, & Hill, 2008)." Though, there are federal help for school with large concentration of poor and many low income student still continue receive less than their fair share of funding based on student need(McClure, Wiener, Roza, & Hill, 2008). However federal funding is not distributed based on poverty. But it uses formula while combining number of children in poverty with state per-student expenditures (McClure, Wiener, Roza, & Hill, 2008).

Stories about how our nation’s educational system has declined have been commonplace for over a generation. Recently, the International Mathematics and Science Study and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study reported our fourth and eighth grade students trail their contemporaries in Asia and many European nations in math and science.

The reason why this injustice has come about falls into two groups of social and economic imbalance. Socially, the inequality of academic guidelines and circumstances has been linked to students’ positions in society. A student’s social class has become the prevailing factor for the scholastic disparity socially. For example, Linda Hammond states, “Few Americans realize that the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world, and the students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based on their social status.” Referring back to this statement, classrooms throughout the U.S educational system contain students representing all of the three social classes that include the lower, middle,

Education disparity is the unequal distribution of academic resources including but not limited to; school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, and technologies to socially excluded communities. Access to standard education is the right of every youth. So let's take a stand for it and analyze ways we can lessen disparity in education.

Imagine a world of weak minded, illiterate people. Imagine world of closed-minded, careless people. Imagine a world where people are content with the educational system today. Educational inequality is still Americans most urgent civil right issue, because it’s difficult to survive without a high school diploma. Educational inequality is the unfair distribution of academic resources such as; school funding, experienced and/or qualified teachers, books, and new resources to socially deprived communities. These communities are disadvantaged and oppressed and have been for decades, and no one is acting upon the issue. Think back to grade school, recall how teachers spoke about the future how it goes from: school, graduation, to get a career

Inequality is a huge problem in society today. Specifically, it is an issue in education. A fair education is not given to all students due to race, money, and location. Some families have to cross major hurdles just for their children to attend school, and it is likely that it is not even a notable school. Educators’ priorities are often out of sorts and fail to remember what the overall goal is: to (creatively) get their students to learn. Students today think school is a chore and will go to the extremes, whether cheating just to pass a class, or simply by putting forth very little effort whatsoever. Whereas there are always improvements that could be made in education, the biggest problem lies in the inequity of the education itself

Inequality in education is a current global issue and is closely related to economic inequality, which is rising within many nations. In 1948, countries signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which promoted the idea that education is a fundamental human right (M. A., M. D., & A. B). Education is a key factor that influences social and developmental outcomes in countries and communities, and because of this reducing education inequality is an extremely important sustainable development goal by 2030 (M. A., M. D., & A. B).

The current inequalities in education can be traced back to history of how this nation was established. Ever since the colonization of the Americans the institutional power has belonged to white males. This power has slowly spread from rich white males to white males to women and people of color. As the United States constitution was being written by affluent white males the backbone of the economy was African slave labor. Slavery existed in the United States for almost a century, but for about three centuries is what is now the US. Yet when slavery was abolished African Americans were not allowed to become full on citizens, it took until 1964 to begin to be treated as equals. Because African Americans were systematically oppressed for most of the time his country has existed it is no surprise that they are behind whites in various aspects. One way that get all people regardless of race, gender, religion, or economic class to be better prepared for is through education.

In order for education to have a positive impact in communities, it is essential to ensure equality in learning for all people. This does not necessarily mean ensuring equality in education outcomes for all people because individual factors such as competency and ability varies among people. Students from poor families are more likely to attend schools with a worse infrastructure, less qualified teachers, less ambitious peers, and outmoded practices. Because of this, they are more likely to have lower learning outcomes. Therefore, reducing educational inequality will have positive effects on developmental outcomes. Ensuring equality in education delivery will also reduce discontent in countries and cities (Inequality in education: The challenge of Measurement). Because of this, urgent solutions are needed to address educational inequality.

In the world today, now more than ever there is an abundant amount of diversity and disconnect between political parties, races, genders, leaders, communities and educators. It comes in some large and small waves through alerts on our cellphone, television, newspaper, social media pages, or through our interactions with people. But, focusing in this essay on the alerts and headlines that are geared toward education policies for students with lower socioeconomic status, race differences, and undocumented immigrants. And asking the questions of where can students with lower socioeconomic status and illegal immigrants going to school, are they succeeding, going into college? Looking through some topics through a lens of conflict theory, which states that in society there are economic power struggles that are an inevitable cause of a capitalist society. Conflict theory also includes that power struggles lead to social change through competition and upheaval. For my hypothesis, I expect to find supporting evidence stating that education is lacking for the students who are of a different race, lower socioeconomic status, and undocumented immigrants are not receiving the level of education for some reason or another.

It has been established throughout previously mentioned economic-based examples that there is a significant relationship between economic status and academic success. However, studies show that educational achievement also has a substantial correlation with the other aspect of socioeconomic status; social class. This is because social patterns that are inherently designed to correlate an individual’s academic success with their social status, are often rooted in school systems’ structures. Although it’s evident that social class plays a substantial role in the success that a student will achieve throughout their academic career, pinpointing its extent is difficult since social class-based educational inequality is a complex issue.

When talking about the relationship between education and social inequality, particularly economic inequality, we can find that education or educational inequality is one of the reason why economic inequality occurs, however, economic inequality causes new educational unfairness in reverse. As mentioned above, gaokao is likened to a dumuqiao or “single-log bridge” (Kipnis, 2001, p.483) as it has the monopoly power to determine whether students from different social origins can get opportunities for higher education. Most importantly, it trigged the rise of merit-based selection, and made the university you graduated from become one of the merits to value (Liu, 2016). In order to cultivate graduates “who can respond to the needs of the economy” (Cockain, 2016, p.314) and revitalize the nation, China has realized “211 Project”, “985 Project”, and even developed world-class research institutions in the 21st century. However, name of these projects and universities become graduates’ labels and enterprises’ filter criteria when recruiting employees, and graduates from prestigious institutions will get much higher starting salary than the ones from common colleges. In the context of China’s reform and ensuring rapid growth in economy, more education means “greater computational skills, more extensive knowledge of geography, more accurate identification of historical events and figures, wider acquaintance with authors and works of literature” (Rong & Shi,

With the development of economic society in contemporary China, there is an increasingly high demand for high-quality talents and people begin to pay more and more attention to the educational development. The inequality of educational development aggravates the cut-throat competition in the allocation of high-quality educational resources and even evolves into the inequitable “inside story”, which intensifies the issue of educational equality and leads to a radical social response. This paper mainly studies the issue of educational inequality in China’s contemporary society and briefly analyzes three phenomena and relevant reasons of the educational inequality. Meanwhile, this paper also discusses the relationship between education and economic development in a brief way.

Most would agree that the education system in Canada is widely regarded as a national right and an institution of socialization that is of crucial importance. Education is the agent of socialization most responsible for formal knowledge and wealth acquisition. However, as a social institution, the education system works to perpetuate social class inequality and serves to disadvantage learners from lower socioeconomic status which negatively impacts their learning and limits opportunities for upwards social mobility.