Examining the Reasons for Changes in the Educational Attainment

Underachievement in schools can be heavily linked to factors that are internalised within the school. Both internal and external factors can contribute to the underachievement of pupils who belong to a working class background, and they may be equally as effectual on the underachievement of the pupil.

Outline and assess the view that the role of education system is to justify and reproduce social inequalities (50)

While for boys activities play a central part in forming best friends. Their groups are large and tend to be hierarchical. To back her statements Tanner mentions anthropologists and sociologists such as “Janet Lever, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, and Donna Eder” so that the audience can find these assumptions credible. Similarly, she mentions that the regular classroom is more hospitable to males due the use of “debate-like formats” as a learning tool she adds that this is due to the fact that males appreciate arguments and challenges more than females. She backs this claim by referring to “Walter Ong” who projects the same idea that the average educational system is suited more to males. Such supports help her in convincing the audience however other arguments put forward by Tannen are backed by no such references which then fail to make any further impact on the audience and make them question the credibility of ideas

The United States is a country based on equal opportunity; every citizen is to be given the same chance as another to succeed. This includes the government providing the opportunity of equal education to all children. All children are provided schools to attend. However, the quality of one school compared to another is undoubtedly unfair. Former teacher John Kozol, when being transferred to a new school, said, "The shock from going from one of the poorest schools to one of the wealthiest cannot be overstated (Kozol 2)." The education gap between higher and lower-income schools is obvious: therefore, the United States is making the effort to provide an equal education with questionable results.

We’ve come a long way, baby! Over the past 100 years of public education in the great state of Alabama, changes in education have been literally fought for by blood, sweat and tears. However, with the desegregation issues from 1964 closed for the past 50 years, state legislatures still find plenty of arguments concerning public education reforms. Most of these arguments, though, are essentially concerns about federal control over state. Thanks to several federal acts, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 the students of Alabama schools are all getting a better education. Just by these two acts,

Document C is a speech made by a young African-American boy who is first in his class, during 1819, in New York City. He explains that even since he is genius he will have no future because of the color of his skin. According to Document C Note, it states, “ However, this was an improvement over the South where public schooling for white and free blacks was very limited, and where educating slaves was generally illegal.” Document C Note shows that black children in the North were given an opportunity at education allowing them to learn legally for the first time, while white boys in the South still could not go to school. Before the Civil War, many Northern schools for black children were segregated, but this was an improvement over the South

Analysis of “Boys Left Behind” “ Boys Left Behind” is written by Kevin Hassett describing the situation of what boys are facing in current society. Hassett claims that America’s society worries too much about how females are being treated unfairly and forgets about the struggles of boys. He describes the academic performance of boys and girls, where which, girls outperformed boys at every academic levels.

(Wallace, 2013). Research reveals that the involvement of parents, teachers and other administrative can improve the level of education and even increase test scores. Another impact that an Illiterate population can have on the school system is that the NEA has to generate some new policy on high school, graduation and attendance to leverage tests score which will give a chance for African-American to get a school diploma through other alternatives. As for instance, for high school dropouts, earning a GED is the only opportunity to prepare for better jobs and reenter the education system. The NEA puts so much emphasis on the concept of high school education and believes that every student should earn a high school diploma or its equivalent

The United States had gone through so many changes over the years and with each change we could say that we have become a better nation. Along the way to becoming a better nation, we have gone through highs and lows; however there seems to be a constant low that is now taking a toll on our children. The low may also end up having an effect on our future and that low is inequality in education among minority races and low income students. Low income students should be concerned with inequality in education in the United States because this means that their chances of continuing their education to obtain a better paying job in the future is significantly harder to do then students in higher income brackets.

In the article “Education at Crossroads part 2” Vicki Viotti discusses the underfunding for schools statewide and teacher evaluations. “Our schools are creating a very different system, one system for rich children and one system for poor or middle-class children”(Viotti pg.2 par.2). Private schools spend an average of $15,000 to $25,000 per student, while the rate for public schools is much lower- $11,800 per student. This is a big issue with the new president of the Hawaii State Teachers Association, Corey Rosenlee, who ran for president because of the amount of inequality he saw in the school system. Another issue Rosenlee wishes to render is teacher evaluations. “45 percent of a teacher evaluation for some teachers is based on student learning

The public school system maintains inequality through tracking of students and standardized tests. Barkan pg. 292 talks about white middle class being likely to be tracked up which in return results to them learning more, while poor students of color are more likely to be tracked down resulting in them learning less.

In contrast to the traditional methods of analysis in comparative education, Kara Janigan and Vandra Lea Masemann’s studies provides a new way of looking at the issue of gender and education. Rather than focusing on the results of quantitative studies, the authors stress the importance of qualitative studies. According to the authors, “gender parity refers to the actual number of girls and boys, women and men, participating within an

Gender inequality throughout the world will not start to improve unless we start at the source of the issue. Overall there are many gender inequalities that are geared towards women that will not start to change unless they are corrected at a young age. Girls and women are proven to be disadvantaged in education systems in most parts of the world (“UNESCO Joins Partners…”). Some people argue that gender equality is not the biggest issue in the world because boys also can be disadvantaged. For example, of the boys that are out of school in South and West Asia, 16% of them are unlikely to ever start school (“Girls’ Education and…”). While there are cases in some parts of the

Success, achievement and participation at school are not simply a matter of intelligence or ability. Discuss this statement with reference to the concepts of cultural capital, hidden curriculum, class and socioeconomic status.

Education reform is a topic that every student, parent and teacher should be interested in because it effects everyone in the community. Many different approaches to education reform have been tried, and even though they seem to work for the time being, there are always more improvements that need to be made. One of the best ideas that has been discussed in the most recent years is getting the parents and students more involved in the actual reform process. Many school administrators see a problem with involving students, even though they are the ones most affected by the changes within schools. Student’s opinions should be taken into consideration because they are the ones who see what happens inside the school and within the classroom, and are the most affected by it. Involving parents and students in the reform of their schools will improve the quality of education, improve parent and teacher relationships and reduce parent and student complaints.