Equity Within Education : The United States Is A Problem Of High School

Resources that schools receive are different depending on the area the school is in. Students in low-income neighborhoods do not have the same opportunities as the students in higher income neighborhood. These underprivileged schools are overcrowded and does not have the means necessary to better the student’s education.

Segregation in the United States, is defined as legal or social practice of separating people by law based on differences of race, wealth, culture, religion, or sexual orientation. Racial segregation in started as early as the 1800's as slavery. Slaves weren’t allowed to have an education like their owners’ children. Their purpose was to do the work that their owners wanted them to do. People separate the schools between black and white and the separate school system were not equal. There is a strong racial inequality in school systems, which negatively affect the quality of education for black people. For this reason, blacks and whites had to attend different schools. White schools gave white children a good quality education but black children

One of the most prominent problems in the U.S. educational system is that there is an unfair inequality of schooling between wealthier and poorer populations because of the school funding system. Schools are funded unevenly depending on the general household income of its locals; higher income areas have better funded schools and low income areas have lower funded schools because the schools run on what can be provided by the public. This

In the United States, public schools get their funding from their respective state. As a student, it can be seen as concerning when one compares how much states spend on their schools. Many schools are inadequate in both an aspect of safety and effectiveness of the learning environment. As a result of inadequate subsidy across America, schools resort to taking drastic measures. Not only are the unequal sources of subsidy a difficulty, but the concept and execution of budget cuts also exacerbate the issue. In order to give every student in America equal opportunities for success, funding should be controlled by the federal government with a policy that enforces equity rather than equality. This is also a viable option that could be carried

So the question at hand we must ask ourselves is how we can combat such disparities within inner city neighborhoods like City Center. The first is to recognize that the school system within the City Center neighborhood is not flexible, it is inefficient at best. Teachers in the state sector are required to provide a curriculum that is often unsuitable to the children in which they teach. They have to deal with ill-disciplined students and also have to negotiate with unskilled, intrusive bureaucrats and teachers. Perhaps the problem with the state system is not lack of money, but the inefficient deployment of resources for the students who live within the area in which they are trying to serve.

I believe equity and expectancy theories are being used at Marshall Metro High School to motivate students and teachers, but inconsistently. Equity theory is the fairness of the input and output ratio of work in exchange for pay or rewards (Adams, 1965, as cited in Bretz & Thomas, 1992). I believe Marshall Metro High School has shown the use of the equity theory to motivate freshman teachers by giving them set goals, for example, what percentage of freshman is acceptable to keep on track for the tenth grade. This has motivated teachers to think outside the box and work very hard to achieve these goals, even though sometimes they were not achieved, they continued to try their hardest. However, the teachers seemed to be frustrated and demotivated by the actual results of their inputs. Perhaps the equity theory is more consistent when

Before going to the intricacies of the current system, it is important to look back and understand the triggers that have made the current system what it is today. We could see that the concept of fair has gradually evolved into the concept of equity of resources. This evolution was guided by the litigations and research that was done through the years with regards to the school funding policies. We could see how the shift in paradigm have affected the evolution of the policy through a historical perspective through the paradigm of adequacy and equity used in conjunction with the other for the school funding systems.

We have learned about equity through this last five weeks. However, I like to passion that chapter 13 from Blankstein & Noguera (2015) have about having equity in Chesterfield Country Public Schools. Blankstein & Noguera (2015) “realized changing the culture and steering this ship on a course that embraces equity and diversity while maintaining excellence was going to agitate some already rough waters. And any public discussion about race was going to be very risky.” (p. 241). Also, because of our nation’s history, the topic of race is one of the most sensitive of polarizing in these days (Blankstein & Noguera, 2015). This idea if thought provoking for me because sometimes I am one person who does not like to talk about race because back

Teach for America aims at bringing equality in the American education system. TFA aims at providing quality education for kids in low- income communities just as those in the high income communities are enjoying. I want to join teach for America because I have the passion for kids. I am a person who advocates for equality among kids irrespective of their race, tribe, sex and their religious background.

High school was a particular time where I faced many doubts in individuals that I thought where my best friends, this often caused me to become paranoid. High school can be tough between trying to fit in, and find where you belong. High school is filled with rumors, and he said she said, many times I often became paranoid because I never truly knew if my friends where the real friends I thought they were. This often caused me to have doubts in believing what they were telling me was always true or not. Some of my friends tended to talk about others when they were not around, this lead me to feel like if I wasn’t around they were saying things about me. I often had ask myself if these where the type of people I should be surrounding myself

According to Nielsen (2013), in the United States, the government has been working hard in the due process of providing education to the children in the country. Despite the efforts that have been initiated by the United States education department, there is a problem of equity in education access around the nation. There are a good number of students who do not have the same opportunities as others when it comes to the education sector. For instance, in most cases, the quality of education that a student will get depends with their social class in the community. Those with a weak living condition are less likely to have the same quality of education as those who belong to the wealthy families. Therefore, the importance of equity, issues with sameness and the strategies suggested by Natalie (2013) and the report by the equity and excellence commission will form the basis of discussion for this paper.

There are many problems that equity is facing that need to be corrected. It has been a focus to improve the issues that equity acquires, but the efforts have failed since it has been a problem for decades. It can change the way students are learning and it will allow everyone to have the resources needed. Equity is of great importance in education, but it has many issues that go with it. The issues affect many children and families in the community. Finding a solution to

The difference between equity and equality is something that I always used to struggle with until one of my professors explained the difference: equity is giving individual students different degrees of help until they reach the same standard, and equality is giving all students the same amount of help. Personally, I believe that good teaching utilizes both of these strategies. All of our students need some help in some way, whether it be academically, emotionally, or cognitively. They all need our help to some degree. I don’t believe in giving zero guidance to a student simply because they have already reached the desired standard.

The education system has been failing students as time progresses. Because of cutbacks that affects the quality of education and lack of necessary equipment in high schools, teachers fail to make students engaged and feel passionate about education. Every morning, it is the same routine, forty minutes here or an hour there just to sit in a classroom and learn nothing because students do not find the lectures interesting.

Equity and equality, both of these concepts are very important in many things like in the educational system; however, equity is more important than equality when dealing with education. Equity is more important than equality because, with equity, you give the student what he or she may need in order to be successful. Equality can be useful in the education system; however, it can hinder one's own education since everyone will have to receive the same education as each other rather than receiving the necessary education for those students to prosper. In the works created by James Baldwin, Sherman Alexie and Ralph Waldo Emerson, respectively, they all give substantial evidence that can further prove why the concept of equity is greatly needed in the educational system rather than equality.