Nonwhites: A Case Study

Higher education in America is facing many challenges, i.e., low retention, low graduation rates and less funding. Postsecondary institutions are scrambling to remain a competitive entity within society. In order to do so, students must remain in school (Talbert, 2012). The Office of the White House states (2014), educational attainment is critical to our county’s economic success. In essence, the work force is creating more jobs requiring more education and a higher level of skill than was previously achieved. Individuals with only a high school diploma will not make into the middle class sector because of

Education is the key to individual opportunity, the strength of our economy, and the vitality of our democracy. In the 21st century, this nation cannot afford to leave anyone behind. While the academic achievement and educational attainment of Hispanic Americans has been moving in the right direction, untenable gaps still exist between Hispanic students and their counterparts in the areas of early childhood education, learning English, academic achievement, and high school and college completion.

Gregory, Perry and Rankin also explains that In 1907, African Americans infrequently had different choices for advanced education aside from a general (HBCU) .Furthermore, Gregory, Perry and Rankin states that In 2008, HBCUs are still transcendently African American and flourishing in light of the fact that these organizations are effectively teaching and graduating African-American understudies more so than ever before. According to Gregory, Perry, and Rankin Notwithstanding and now and again ignored, HBCUs are an imperative choice for secondary school African-American understudies look into attending more so today than any other secondary institution. Lastly, Gregory, Perry and Rankin explain how (HBCUs) secondary schools offer advantages minority understudies may some way or another not get if they were to attend a non HBCU; which is why minorities and African American understudies choose to attend HBCUs solely over the option of advantages offered at these HBCUs.

While discussing this issue, it is crucial to focus on helping those of “low-income kids, English-language learners, and kids with disabilities the support they need to thrive” by raising the standard of education that these students are receiving to the same level as their higher-class counterparts (“Hillary Clinton on K-12 Education”). By improving the public schools that these minority students attend, there is higher the possibility that these students will continue on to higher education

Poverty leads to insufficient opportunities, especially in college education. For instance, according to U.S. Department of Education, students who do not enter college or drop out of their classes are “predominantly persons from low-income families.” In support of this argument, the article states that “only 21 percent of those with family income of less than $25,000 were highly qualified for admission at a four-year institution” compared to the 56 percent of students with family income above $75,000. Therefore, students with bad economic conditions struggle with attending university even after entering it. The problem is that the African Americans race gets the harshest disadvantage from their poor economic conditions. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services publishes that almost 40 percent of African Americans under 18 are below the national poverty line, which is three-times higher than their white counterparts. This explicitly proves that unequal economic conditions are the main reason for inequality in education; African Americans are the most disadvantaged. Furthermore, the correlation between poor economic conditions and a lack of education among African Americans creates a chain of inequality. The poor economic backgrounds of African Americans obstruct their children from attending colleges and subsequently, the lack of higher education makes

Jean demonstrates the term White Privilege by becoming harsher on her maid, Maria, after encountering an unfortunate incident with two black men by complaining on how she handled the chores around the house. She also emphasizes on the importance of her family's safety from the black community by checking and enhancing their security system. Not to mention, she holds a high social status in the economy due to her husband being a governor which may be a partial reason to her racist behaviour of being apart from the lower-classed black people. Moreover, she represents a selective perception similar to the white producer I mentioned earlier with Cameron when she assumed Daniel as part of gangbangers when in contradictory, Daniel is a hardworking father only wanting for his family to live a great lifestyle.

Inspiring and encouraging Chicano students to attend college, especially first generation students, has been a movement lead by many clubs, organizations, and by teachers who are passionate about their careers. Thus, “first generation students” is a term that states that a student does not have a record of previous generations attending college. Usually, students classified as such come from low income families as well as from poor neighborhood communities. That is to say, many of these individuals are also minorities such as African Americans and Chicano students. Also, public schools in low income areas tend to have poorly taught material in school. Consequently, there exists a direct correlation between race and poverty that portrays a

In reflecting on the background of these students, I realize that they often lack the resources necessary to successfully transition, not only into college but once they graduate and are looking for careers. For this reason, I feel that the purpose for pursuing higher education for first-generation, low-income students is to provide them with better opportunities than they would have with only a high school diploma. This is especially important for these students that lack cultural capital,

According to Census data, 35% of people who live in the Urban Suburbs have at least Rural undergraduate degree. Tailing close behind are the big cities, with about 32% having a bachelor degree. Rural America however lags far behind with less than 20% having earned a bachelor degree (Press 2014). In 2017, The New York Times reported, that 29% of rural college-age teens were enrolled in college in comparison to 47% of urban college -age teens (Denby, 2018). There is no denying that rural America is consistently underrepresented in participation of higher education compared to their urban counterparts. In this paper, I will argue that that there is a clear opportunity gap that influences rural students in

Until quite recently, education in the United States has been more of a privilege than a human right. Slaves were deprived of reading and writing, and schools were not integrated until the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century. Even then, African-American students continued to face the harsh realities of discrimination and inferior opportunities to white students. Still today, while education has become mandatory for all children through law, many students are not provided with the proper information and resources to become successful adults. We often take education for granted, but for many young students, the idea of lifelong knowledge is somewhat of a liberating factor. Through often difficult yet inevitable situations, however,

“ A lack of money is the most common explanation for why lower-income children do not go to college” ( Lindsey 341). In this quote, the author shows how hard it is for some lower-income kids to go to college when they are out of high school.

According to DePaoli (2015), “The academic deficient types of learners are: (1 minorities (2 low income (3 English Language Learners and (4 Special education (DePaoli, et al., 2015) . There is drop-out data that reports percentage points the Rate (AFGR) and the Adjusted Cohort Graduated Rate (ACGR). Further to say, the minority students have made advances however; still shows the need for improvement by the averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, with totals of 75.2 percent and 70.7 percent, correspondingly, lacks behind other subgroups that exceeds the national average of 81.4 percent” (DePaoli, et al al., 2015, p.6). He furthers to say, “the low-income students reach 73.3 percent and up to 3.3 percentage points from 2010-11 but lacks behind 8 percent of the national average of 81.4 percent” (DePaoli, et al., 2015,

that not everyone had the same results (2012). Some researchers found that people were not less racist when they were aware of white privilege. When some people find out about white privilege they are angry because they feel guilty for being white. However, the goal is not to make people feel guilty; sociologists want people to be informed. Ruparelia feels that whites should try to make things equal about races (2014). If whites were able to convince people that they are of the superior race, then they have the power to make things equal.

The landscape of health care is changing, however despite the adoption of the ACA, Americans are struggling to obtain quality healthcare services due to their geographic and psychographic limitations. The geographic disparity is due to the historic state-by-state coverage variation of low-income adults through government sponsored health care programs leaving an estimated 10 million adults with limited to no health insurance coverage and limited services in some rural areas of America (Gabow, 2013). Furthermore, as the age of the population increases and the fertility rate decreases the physiological maker of menarche where sociological determents of reproduction behavior, marriage, sterilization, infertility and sociological patters such

Recent statistical reports from various research groups including the United States Census Bureau and the Bureau of Statistics have indicated that within thirty years European Americans would no longer be in the majority as a percentage of the population of the United States. This news did not go down well with a significant part of the aforementioned European American population. Then, with the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the reaction became vitriolic, with an explosion of social unrest among the said European Americans culminating in calls to "take our country back". Simultaneously, police killings of "non-whites", especially those unarmed, skyrocketed, with gruesome "overkill" of victims using in some cases