Inequalities In Education

The education system in the United States has expanded over the years to prepare individuals for the demanding labor market that constitutes our society. It has shifted from the development of mere intellectual scholars to the development of intellectual scholars competitive enough for a work force that now requires a degree for entrance. As this system of education has expanded throughout the country, so has the reproduction of inequality. To explain the manner in which this system has been structured to achieve a gap of inequity among society’s affluent and disadvantaged members, conflict theorist Karl Marx claims that, “School institutions are intentionally designed to integrate individuals into an unjust society” (Brand lecture, January

For the first century of the United States, Congress had a restricted but active position in education, which expanded after the Civil War in 1865. At that time, the federal government mandated new union states to offer free public schools and established an early form of the Department of Education. From the late 1930s to the early 1990s, the Supreme Court's opposition to congressional power decreased, clearing the way for a greater federal role in education. The federal role in education increased as Congress provided funding for the construction of schools, teacher salaries, and school lunch programs. However, this assistance was geared toward wealthier school districts, which negatively impacted poorer, urban schools (Martin, 2012).

In the article, “The Education Inequality Struggle” published by The Huffington Post, Marian Wright Edlemen discusses a new act by Congress, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that serves to replace the No Child Left Behind Act. The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act was to add need federal accountability in regards to the desegregation and equalization of education along with fiscal accountability. However, the No Child Left Behind Act failed to address the scholarly performance of children. ESSA is designed to track student performance by traits known to affect education; race, gender, ethnicity, disability, and language. At the same time, individual states create plans for education that have to be approved federally. Based on these

What grade would America receive for our education system? America would probably get a D because we cannot provide everyone with the same quality education as other public schools, private, and charter schools. Education is important in all countries especially in America, but there is so much educational inequality that everyone does not get an equal opportunity at a good education. This can be due to the location and income of families that can determine how successful they are going to be in school. The government has attempted to increase graduation rates by implementing new laws and standards that have actually in time proven to be unsuccessful. This essay is going to highlight the educational inequality in America,

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.

Education is the fundamental base of any functional democratic society. There is overwhelming evidence proving that social conditions across the board are improved when the residents of any given community are better educated. For example, reports suggest that better education leads to higher voter turnout rates, lower levels of poverty and homelessness, and overall, higher standards of health and wellness due to a general awareness as well as access to well-rounded health care. Additionally, there is evidence to suggest that with greater education, crime rates of all kinds are reduced, consequentially decreasing incarceration and marginalization rates.

Education plays a larger component in the lives of people all around the world since it gives them capital, such as human, cultural, and social capital. Furthermore, education provides populations with all sorts of skills that can improve their quality of life. However, there happen to also be inequalities of education and diverse minorities have a grueling time trying to adjust their future. Numerous studies have shown a strong correlation of socioeconomic status and education, including how difficult it is to improve one's quality of life when coming from a low socioeconomic status.

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.

In the modern world, education is the crucial key to the economic success. It can help an undeveloped country become a developing country, turn a developing country into a developed one, or even make a developed country become a more advanced economy. A successful education system is a system which makes sure that every student can access school equally. However, although the United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, there seem to be many inequalities in the American education system. In this essay, the education inequalities will be classified into four areas: race, economic background, gender, and Standardized Educational Testing.

San Antonio Independent School District, also known as SAISD, contains two of the poorest zip codes in the county of Bexar. 78207 is known to be one of the economically disadvantaged zip codes within the district, with the second highest poverty rate in the state. Individuals and families who live in low-income communities are often subject to poverty and its negative effects. As poverty plays a major role in a community, the economic status of a neighborhood can determine many aspects in regards to health, hunger, and developmental outcomes. Although these are a few aspects of poverty, there is yet another effect which in my opinion is

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,

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Poverty and inequity in education intersect one another while also relating to Tozer’s analytic framework, which consists of the social phenomena of schooling, political economy, and ideology as the corners of a triangle. This three-part structure is a way to represent the factors influencing the educational system. To be specific, education inequity is defined as the unfair treatment in education to students due to aspects such as gender, ethnicity, and family background. Poverty is unfortunately synonymous with educational inequity in that the struggles of living on a meager amount of income are often due to low levels of education, and poverty usually results in less access to good education for the next generation.

A common saying in our society is that education is the great equalizer. However, in modern American society, it is just as common to find areas with unequally funded schools and are known for being hearths for perpetual poverty cycles. If education is supposed to place willing students on an equal playing field with success as the goal, why is it not equally funded across the country? Inequalities in educational funds tend to detrimentally impact the lives of students from low-income families. Aiding those students’ to earn less than students from well-funded institutions in wealthy areas. Leading them to be more likely to take on low-income jobs in unspecialized labor for the majority of their life. The effects of such inequity can be seen through economic, social, and futuristic Perspective.