Essay on Equality in Education

The report Multi-Tiered System of Supports: The New Equalizer in Education has been designed to show an inequality in the school system as well as give a viable solution to the outlined problem. The first proponent of the paper is to unveil the inequality of education between urban and suburban schools; including differences in income that effects the student’s education as well as varying levels of support and guidance students receive. The next step is to determine a response to the inequality so that needed reforms to the educational system can be made. The response that has been formulated to diminish the inequality in education is the Multi-Tiered system of supports.

Society’s understanding of gender roles debate about gender equity and have always been connected to the social roles that men and women we assigned to shape Americans views of education for girls and boys. What has also been affected is race and social class between females and males who attend schools. Ideas of what women and men are suppose to be and do have cut across different classifications. Ending unfairness in schools has rested on change to gender roles mainly women.

     Will Durant, a businessman and the founder of General Motors, once said, “Education is the transmission of civilization.” Unfortunately, education is still one of the most deliberated and controversial issues in the United States. Thus far, the privilege or right to receive education has not attained the level of equality throughout the nation; poor districts obtain less educational funding while rich districts obtain more, creating an immense gap between the quality of schools in poor and rich areas.

When you send your children off in the morning to go to school, no matter what grade they are in whither it be elementary, junior high, or senior high, you expect that they will receive the best education that they can get. They should be asked challenging questions, encouraged and called upon to participate in class, they should also be given as much help as they need to secede by the teacher. However, this is most commonly not the case. Parents and the children themselves are unaware of what is going on because gender bias is not a noisy problem. Most people are unaware of the secret sexist lessons that occur every day in classrooms across the country. In this essay I will use two essay's from the reader:

Today’s education system has its problems, one of the problems being equal education to everyone. This is a problem that can be seen in the more poverty areas in the United States. Most schools in poverty areas have older materials to work with, teachers who are less passionate about their jobs, are not being taught the humanities, and many of the schools are shutting down from poor conditions and low attendance.

In a country that is striving toward gender equality, this is an important issue that needs to be addressed to avoid potential consequences for our citizens down the line. The educational system in the United States is seeing boys fall behind in their studies due to programs being aimed at girl’s success.

“It is early indeed that children show an awareness of the message that… females are generally less interesting and important than males are… The (often inadvertent) bearers of this message include parents, peers, and teachers.” (Lips, 1979, p. 128.) The absence of gender equity can be damaging to both males and females. Surprisingly most of the teachers and administrators are unaware of this problem. Organizations such as the American Association of University Women (“Gender equity,” 2003.) strive to create programs that will improve equality within schools. The purpose of this research paper is to identify gender equity issues in the classroom and explore strategies for teachers to incorporate equitable

McArdle says “We should start teaching them according to how they learn, not according to some idea that boys and girls have to learn the same way” (167). This could be a new possible system of teaching the two sexes differently without holding anyone back in the process. Male and female have different brain activity and also very different ways of learning. When it comes to teaching there needs to be a more specific study, to come with a more evolved teaching criteria. Lastly Conlin says “A new world has opened up for girls, but unless a symmetrical effort is made to help boys find their footing, it may turn out that it’s a lonely place to be. After all, it takes more than one gender to have a gender revolution” (179). Schools need to start taking responsibility for what goes on in schools and their teaching methods that are failing everyone especially

In America, girls and boys across the country have the privilege to be enrolled in an educational system. For thirhteen years, students are taught by college educated teachers and learn material to help us move forward in our carrier. Americans take this opportunity without even thinking about it, but do not realize how much students take this for granted. In the school I have been placed in, my teacher took it upon herself to show us education in different cultures, and the outcome of the lesson was shocking for me. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, readers realize how much women are looked down upon in Afghanistan, yet it was eye opening for me to see what these girls are missing out on. From birth, they are categorized are lesser than men. Never getting the same chances, their life is centered around pleasing their husband. Education is not even an option for most women. I believe all women should have the same opportunity in this world, despite what country they reside in.

In order for women to become confident, intelligent and independent, institutions in all fields should not only ensure equal working opportunities for men and women, but should also encourage and support women to fight against gender discrimination.

During early childhood, girls and boys spend much of their time in the home with their families and look to parents and older siblings for guidance. Parents provide children with their first lessons about gender. Possible ways that parents might influence children’s gender development include role modeling and encouraging different behaviours and activities in sons and daughters(cite). For example, boys are expected mow the lawn, paint the fence and conduct other physical jobs while women are expected to take care of siblings, clean and learn to cook. Unfortunately to date, girls have not received the guidance required to encourage them to pursue degrees in the stem

Brigham Young said “ you educate man; you educate man. You educate women; you educate a generation.” In order to teach the man to do the work the women have to be educated enough to teach the children. People in these other countries such as Pakistan or Afghanistan need women to be taught and be allowed to go to school because if they don’t then the man would not be able to accomplish the tasks that need to be completed. It is important to ask the questions to yourself who is violating this right? Where is this right being violated? To what extent is it being violated? Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, the right to and education, needs to be protected by the government to ensure that girls ages 6-14 can have a valid education that will help in the protection of the girl's life.

As things stand now, females, a group constituting approximately half of our nation, are unable to achieve such ends because the educational system puts them at a disadvantage by marginalizing them and placing their needs in learning below those of males. Granted, this is not the case in every school. Many females grow to become very successful individuals and receive the luxury of having teachers who care about their education, who see all in the classroom as equally important to the learning process. However, in a growing number of schools, some form of discrimination, no matter how subtle, exists. If we want to grow as a nation, we need to address this problem and allow all to have an equal chance at success. Perhaps women in our society have it much better than in earlier generations. Perhaps they indeed are afforded more opportunities to receive an education, and a whole new world of job opportunities is open to them that had not existed previously. But by allowing such discrimination to continue to exist, in any form, we convey the message that as a society, we still somehow wish to retain some sense of separateness between the capabilities of the two genders.

The U.S. Educational system has historically divided into two objective groups. The first objective focuses on increasing opportunity. The second objective focuses on stabilizing an unequal society. The objective of increasing opportunity has mainly emphasized on practition more than discussions of schooling. Thomas Jefferson implemented a plan in 1779, it promised the laboring class more opportunity to attend higher education. The point of the plan was to rake out the brilliant from the poor class, and add them to the prospering upper class. The goal of the plan was to divide the youth

Malala Yousafzai once said, “I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.” This quotation means that education is a right every human being should have, many have been fighting for equality, peace and dignity, but their voices were never heard, but in today society we are still fighting for equality, and the rights we should share today. This quotation relates to an equal education right because many females and males are unable to receive an education in many countries including the Middle East. Education is a basic human right that should be granted to every human being. Even though education can put someone’s life in danger, it is a basic human right that should be granted to every human being. Education should be universal because it frightens those who want their child to get an education, terrorists are threatening the people of unequal rights, and people are not given the chance for an education in some countries due to an economic or cultural disadvantage. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization states, “Education transforms lives and is at the heart of UNESCO’s mission to build peace, eradicate poverty and drive sustainable development. Education should be a means to empower children and adults alike to become active participants in the transformation