Race And Education : Education

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Race and Education
The topic of Race and education stems from our country being divided for a long time among class and race. There is no doubt that if you have a better social standing in society chances are your education will be better. This is not to say people haven’t broken down barriers because they have in order to receive quality education for themselves without the use of much funding. People are motivated to have their children learn as much as can and acquire academic scholarships so they can provide a quality life for their children, but the cycle of being born into that quality life does give a child a head start. In this paper, I will illustrate all of this by showing the history of Race and education, conflict theory
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(Leon-Guerrero, 2014) Education reform scholars argue that racial segregation, funding, inequity and educational inequality go hand in hand. In the 1990s courts began to examine whether the achievement gap between minorities’ and whites was a vestige also known as the former segregated school system. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) Today education analyst contributes this to the achievement gap. Although state courts have held that the quality of education should be fair, the struggle to close the achievement gap still continues. For instance, children coming from a household making over $90,000 have a better chance graduating from college by the age of twenty-four. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) Children coming from families making less than $35,000 have a one in seventeen chance from graduating from college. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) The No Child left behind Act (NCLB), was intended to be the revalidation of the ESEA in 2001. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) The purpose of the NCLB was to close the achievement gap within the races, but ended up failing to drive the educational improvement where it was needed most. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) The NCLB mandated higher scores, but failed to provide low-income schools with resources to make the achievement possible. (Leon-Guerrero, 2014) As a result wealthier
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