Low Education Achievement

These claims have been well documented. However, the connection to the graduation gap may be clearer with an answer of how other factors such as financial and other family problems brought about by poverty affect them. The rest of the book provides possible solutions to questions of invisibility such as respecting and valuing black students. Another solution is removing remedial programs for challenging curricula and supports that are appropriate.

America’s school system and student population remains segregated, by race and class. The inequalities that exist in schools today result from more than just poorly managed schools; they reflect the racial and socioeconomic inequities of society as a whole. Most of the problems of schools boil down to either racism in and outside the school or financial disparity between wealthy and poor school districts. Because schools receive funding through local property taxes, low-income communities start at an economic disadvantage. Less funding means fewer resources, lower quality instruction and curricula, and little to no community involvement. Even when low-income schools manage to find adequate funding, the money doesn’t solve all the school’s

in terms of size" (Chappell, 2015), which racial or ethnic group is currently being left behind in academic achievement? Data shows that the "national dropout rate has decreased between the years of 1972 and 2009 by 6.7 percent, yet 3 million 16 to 24 year-olds in October of 2009 were neither enrolled in high school nor had earned a high school diploma or alternative degree" (Zhao, 2012). Researchers have pinpointed Blacks and Hispanics/Latinos in low-income communities at the greatest risk of dropping out and earning about "630,000 less over their lifetime than someone who has earned at least a GED" (Zhao, 2012). This drop in earnings is potentially related to the fact that "high school dropouts are not eligible for 90 percent of the jobs in the current economy" (Zhao, 2012). The National Center for Educational Statistics designed a nationally representative, longitudinal study of more than 23,000 students who were in the 9th grade in 944 public and private school in 2009, and their reports show that 4.3 percent of Blacks had dropped out of high school, along with 3.5 percent of Hispanics students. Additionally, the same report disclosed data stating that 4.7 percent of dropouts are from low-income families and 4.1 percent of dropout families had parents who had a high school education or less during the time of the study. Therefore, the focus of this study will look into the demographics of Blacks and Hispanic students who reside in low socioeconomic families who may or may not have a high school education. These individuals seem to have the biggest gap in academic achievement, and the group at most risk of missing out on the American dream and producing a desirable and attainable future for their future

Ultimately the lack of reliable resources and preparation from underfunded schools leads African American students into being unprepared for college and jobs, once again reinforcing a vicious cycle of poverty within the community. Gillian B. White, a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, wrote a chilling article regarding the systematic racism that is deeply embedded in the American school system. In the article The Data: Race Influences School Funding, White states “At a given poverty level, districts that have a higher proportion of white students get substantially higher funding than districts that have more minority students” (White). In this quote White explains the clear correlation of race and inadequate funding in the American school

The pressures of racism on today’s society are being perpetuated by socioeconomic shaming against less fortunate black schoolchildren to look to the future of becoming less successful than the more financially stable white schoolchild sitting in the next classroom. The most unfortunate part about the white-black achievement gap is that there is no easy solution to solving it. One large proponent of the achievement gap between all schoolchildren is the factor of wealth and affluence in their homes. The racial achievement gap compared to the wealth achievement gap is quite staggering. Diane Ravitch states that “in contrast to the racial achievement gap, which has narrowed, the income achievement gap is growing…[and is] nearly twice as large

Throughout the years the dropout rate of African Americans has increased and decreased. Many people look at black students as if they sit there and do not learn anything at all but we do try. Some may think that the only reason the black students drop out is because their grades, but that’s not true. Some dropout because of financial pressure, health problems, mental, emotional, and social issues, and may not have family support.

African American students in an affluent, suburban district have not successfully closed the achievement gap. These students’ are generally lower performing that whites and Asians and sometimes lower than Hispanic and/or socio-economically disadvantaged. According to Sohn (2012) the phenomenon of the black white achievement gap has returned. Slaven and Madden (2006) assert “The gap in academic achievement between African American (as well as Latino) children and their White peers is arguably the most important of all educational problems in the U.S.” (p. 389). This leads to continued disparity in educational goals and mastery and ultimately adulthood successes.

“Unequal Education and Federal Loophole Enables Lower Spending on Students of Color.” One of the struggles young African Americans face is getting a good education. Some believe a good education depends on your economics background, whether you live in a wealthy districts

For years people worked to desegregate schools so that every child no matter what color their skin was would get the same education. However, it seems like today that schools have “resegregated” and schools are as just unequal as they were back in 1954. According to our reading 54% of black students compared to 87% of white students performed at or above the basic level on the 2003 eighth-grade reading exam. People need to take into account racial composition, as well as poverty, location in a central city, suburban, or non-metropolitan setting, and the demographic composition of local residents. The reading also discusses what types of schools that the different racial groups are attending. It is reported that minority students attend worse schools, then non-Hispanic whites do. More then 60 % of black and Hispanic students attend high-poverty schools while only 18% of white students and 30% of Asian students attend high-poverty schools. After all the fighting and work and the amount of things we have overcome you would think that we would fix a problem such school segregation.

Since the creation of a comprehensive public schooling system, American citizens have held a great faith in the power of education (Tyack & Cuban, 1995) and that institutions commitment to meet the needs and interests of all young citizens (Tyack & Hansot, 1986). Yet, access to an “equal” K-12 education has always been a contested struggle for black citizens in the United States. The access to equitable public schools continues to be a topic of contested debate across this country. On the one hand, educational institution have provided opportunities for some, while on the other hand, some argued rigged (Anderson, 2009) to provide minimal improvements in the lives for black and brown students, because of the continued structural, institutional, and symbolic advantages and disadvantages that are distributed unequally (Tyack, 1974), based on race (Diamond, 2006). According to educational historian, David Labaree (2010), this nation’s democratic equality principle of education has been increasingly undermined by the countertendencies toward inequality, with usually students of color and low-income receiving the wrong end of the stick (McGee-Banks, 1993).

Not only do students suffer when they come from a family of low social and economic backgrounds, they also fall behind when they come from a family who is either not involved in their education, or have lower expectations for the students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), during the year 2010, of all the bachelor’s degrees conferred to United States residents by degree-granting institutions, 72.9% were white, and only 10.3% were black (Fast Facts). There is a severely disproportionate racial distribution of the number of degrees held in this country. When students come from a family where attending higher education is not the norm, or parents do not push their students to do better than they themselves did,

Education has the potential to enable all people to enhance their capabilities and functioning in order to allow the achievement of sustainable livelihoods and a brighter future outside the classroom. However, currently educational attainment is poor and exclusive in today 's education system. This problem is related to a range of economic, spatial, institutional, social and cultural structures and processes that revolve around the subject of how the students ' attitude is around their entitlement . The current education system 's 'power ' is currently promoting a sense of academic entitlement in its students.

In America, poverty is an huge issue and it is widely discussed on news platforms. People are in poverty when they can’t afford to buy the necessities to live. African Americans are the most prevalent out of all the other ethnic groups and almost half of the number of all black children live in poverty. This is an issue because these children are not given an equal opportunity to learn. It is a right to have access to education but children in poverty are not getting proper education. Many of these kids living in poverty can not afford the resources needed for school and they are also not getting the same level of education as other kids. There are organizations and programs that help out kids in poverty by providing them with school supplies and technology to help with their learning however, these organizations can’t help every child in need. Poverty is still an obstacle that prevent African American children from reaching their fullest potential when they are learning because poverty causes them to have lower levels of academic intelligence in subjects such as math and reading and it causes them to fall behind other kids in school.

This is America, a place dubbed “land of the free”. Many see it as a place for opportunity, a new life, or just a fresh start overall. Others see it as a place of betterment for themselves and for their education. America has always been seen as a desired destination for higher education, which is evident in the 6% increase of students coming from abroad to study here from 2012 to 2013 (Tempera 3). Even with an increasing number of students from abroad coming to America to reap the benefits of its educational system; students in America experience a disparity in achievement among races, specifically black students vs. whites. The achievement gap between white and black students is evident in the facts that test scores and graduation rates are lower, the racial densities of the schools are different (resegregation), there is an uneven distribution of key academic supports, and due to different socioeconomic statuses.

Did you know that one of the major factors that plays a role in Americas education system is the economic status of students and their districts? For many low poverty rated neighborhoods, governmental funding is hardly enough to sufficiently support an entire schools academic needs. Because majority of schools in the US are funded through the property tax of its neighborhood or district, schools in poor neighborhoods receive poor funding. Since funding is distributed depending on the surrounding areas property tax, schools in rich neighborhoods receive the greatest deal of economic support. The economic gap within the system can affect a students’ learning experience and create a bad image of education. Also, poor students encounter more problems on a daily bases than wealthy students which makes focusing on school that much harder. When growing up, my economic status wasn’t anywhere near the best. I had to worry about things like: how was I going to get my clothes washed, how were we going to pay the light bill or how was I going to eat if I didn’t make it to school. School was