Undoubtedly, the inadequate condition of our country’s education system is cyclical. The level of poverty in the United States is high; therefore, economic problems prevent many from receiving sufficient education. This deficiency prevents higher levels of learning, which stand in the way of our nation’s economic growth. This situation is simultaneously widespread and continuous. The importance in providing better educational opportunities should be recognized, supported and enforced in our country in order to improve our current situation.
The lack of government funds to pay for school necessities greatly contribute to our problem of poor education. Due to our weakened economy in the United States we lack the financial power to
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Furthermore, disregard for knowledge will perpetuate health issues and unemployment which can contribute to homelessness.
When family values are suffering, education amongst the children within that family may also suffer. The causes of deterioration within the family structure may also be created by economic problems and a lack of community support. When value is placed on working to earn support within a financially disadvantaged family, the value placed on education is non-existent. Children are not instilled with the value of education to earn more money, since money is needed for immediately survival. Parents do not have time to involve themselves with the school system and attend teacher conferences to assist their children. Familial and cultural cycles develop that are extremely difficult to break. Uneducated parents do not encourage their children to achieve higher education. There is likelihood for this type of family to produce unemployable offspring. More unemployed people equate to more receiving government benefits, further exacerbating social problems. This situation creates a need for even more social services and places a further strain on government resources.
The placement of value on education is detrimental for the future of our country. Looking to other successful countries, it is clear that the basis of a good education is comprised of math, reading and science. It is to our
United States of America has a culturally diverse population consisting of great potentials that are known worldwide for their excellence in medicine, engineering, arts, music, and politics. Therefore, being the most powerful nation in the history, it is expected that America should have the best education that allows every citizen, no matter the race, religion, gender, age, to become educated. This is not far-fetched because of the disparity in socio-economic status of the citizens both in the urban and the rural areas. Notably, there is a larger population of low-income residents in the rural areas within America. These people are faced with social and economical problems, which prevent their effective participation, and enrollment in schools to be educated.
Furthermore, unemployment leads to domestic problems. Head of the family is responsible for earning money; however, if unemployment occurs, children may suffer from having a good education provision, received stress impact from their parent due to financial constraints. Children may not able to attend schools as the family is unable to afford the necessary school supplies.
The United States of America is arguably the most powerful and influential nation in the 21st century. With its massive military force that spans across the globe and the complex and powerful economic capabilities of American businesses, the United States dominates every aspect of worldly power. Yet, there is one field where the United States recently began to falter behind many other modern nations. This field is the education system. The halting and event the reversal of the progress of education will be detrimental to the future of the United States if the problems are not solved soon and continue to persist.
The decline of the educational system will involve even more problems for the deprived. There are steps which can be taken, but are we willing to take these steps? There are few who leave their poverty background. A change in our educational system must take place so the under privileged can advance. Poor in America do not suffer the amount of suffering as the poor in Yemen and other parts of the world. In America most
While poverty is the biggest issue in society today, another issue, directly related to poverty, is causing as much, if not more mayhem in all countries, including the US. Education is vital for children and young adults to find their place in the world, and yet many countries struggle to provide people with an education system that promotes learning from all aspects of sides. In the US, many public schools struggle to pay their teachers, and use textbooks that are either outdated, or damaged to the point where the text is difficult to
Education, as many know to be one of the essential factors in the development of a brighter and stronger country, doesn't really come for granted to many of the plebs of the country.
Revolutionist and Philanthropist Nelson Mandela, once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. (Forbes Magazine) Indeed! Education is one of the most important qualities a person can have. However, not everyone has access to the resources for a good education. Here in America, where education is free up until college, why does a child’s socioeconomic status affects their elementary education? One of the main factor for low SES is Poverty. Which ultimately determines their life’s chances. However, with improvement in family, and community, and health and safety issues, and improving the school system for equal educational opportunities, the dynamics of low socioeconomics will start to change.
The United States’ education ranks low on multiple ranking sources, ranging from literacy levels to mathematical abilities and every curriculum in between. We rank 17th overall, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Not only is the United States ranked educationally low, the gap between the United States and the country in first place, South Korea, the gap is over one hundred points on the literacy tests. The top educational countries around the world have shown to accelerate their test scores by government involvement helping all ares of the country, especially the ones with sociocultural and economic issues that score the lowest, giving all students the same opportunity for academic success. The United States has had minimal attempts to successfully follow through with policies to increase the opportunity for underprivileged students in impoverished region around
The school system provides many achievements throughout our life that benefit us, but everything had its consequences. As our system improves year to year there's many challenges that it has to go through issues regarding budget, technology, different aspects as the generation changes, and more. As years passes there have being many issues concerning how the education is affecting the younger generations and how even though many program are involved there isn't a satisfactory end result to provide a successful outcomes. One of the biggest issues concerning according to Grace Chen article is how poverty might affect the percentage of dropouts in an institution because of their financial struggle which might affect them with their lack of food
“It is important to place education in its sociological context, to remind us that education is necessary, but not the sole reason for an individual or society’s success. Success is dependent on social class, the formal education of parents, and race, ethnicity and gender. It is also dependent on how important formal education is to a society, and how much it will be willing to invest financially, structurally, and emotionally in education” (Vissing, 2011, Sec. 4.7). The major factor that influences the quality of education in the United States is funding. When the funding is low, the quality of the teaching drops. “The data clearly indicates that the amount of financial support available influences the quality of education receives” (Vissing,
Education is the avenue to all forms of development for that matter. Development here is a tandem of all fields ranging from politics to social and of course the economy of the country. A question of education should, therefore, be treated with the highest degree of concern for a country to develop. This task, therefore, seeks to analyze the social issues in education with the United States of Education as the main point of reference. The essay shall subsequently discuss how the issues threatening education sector can be solved to meet the interest of all people. Most importantly, it seeks to discuss the three goals in American education,
The current socio-economic climate of the United States and the world at large can best be characterized as one in which access to both opportunity and wealth are increasingly scarce to those living in poverty. While there are a number of contributing factors that create this mass inequality, the scope of this argument will focus on education. The American schooling system is lagging behind globally and the current programs in place are ineffective to the point of being detrimental. This paper asserts that specific changes to the public education system will produce positive outcomes not only in the global ranking but will be additionally beneficial in bridging the opportunity gap and countering the growing culture of classism.
Many people have to fight poverty everyday and the worst thing about it is the fact that it has infiltrated our school systems. Many factors cause this higher unemployment rate and those related to education are on the top of the list. When these cities and towns enter states of poverty the schools are allotted less and less money so the aspect of education takes the backseat. Students are crippled intellectually because of the low grade resources and teachers they are given. This is happening all over the country of the United States of America and everyday but the most affected areas are smaller urban and rural parts of the country. The following articles address this issue: R. Buck and J. Deutsch (2014) “Effects of poverty on education;” M. Gordon and M. Cui (2014) “School-Related Parental Involvement and Adolescent Academic Achievement: The Role of Community Poverty;” T. Capra (2009) “Poverty and its Impact on Education: Today and Tomorrow.” The authors of these articles have searched long and hard to find the problem in the system and bring them to light. In trying to solve this problem this paper will ask as follows: What really causes the impoverished education?
The main cause of the lack of money in education is that the judicial system is locking up some of the innocent and the criminals. The prison have to dress and provide shelter,
It is easy to assume that every problem can be immediately traced to a lack of funding. Society can not escape this reality. Money is indeed a necessary evil. It is because of the impoverished state of public schools, that everyone suffers.