Achievement gap in the United States

Big Sky, Big money:, it is talking about the election in Montana. The state of Montana is said to have fund money which we don’t know where it is coming from and there is a certain group who supports the election secretly by funding the candidate. I think in this video the elite theory could be explained. Elite theory is a theory of the state which seeks to describe and explain the power relationships in contemporary society. States that are controlled in democratic societies is in the hands…

Testing is a big part in schools and inequality of education affects testing scores in the United States. In recent years, most ages in schools are scoring the best scores ever in history on standardized tests. These ages include nine year olds, 13 year olds, and 17 year olds. Although, the problem is that this information is coming from schools where the majority of children come from middle-class income families. Inequality in schools really starts to be a problem when a school contains more…

Title Tenure in the classroom “study after study has shown a yawning educational achievement gap between the poorest and wealthiest children in America” (Cohen, 2015). It becomes extremely difficult to fire that teacher who is guaranteed a job with three to seven years of experience. Parents seem to be dissatisfied with the current situation on the concept of whether or not teacher should be tenured in American schools. Reaching for a higher education is vanishing for students who know that they…

Achievement disparities are often attributed to socioeconomic factors. According to 2009 data from the Census Bureau, of all children younger than 18 living in families, 15.5 million live in poverty, defined as a family of four with less than $21,947 per year. This includes 4.9 million, or about 10 percent, of non-Hispanic white children, and one in three black and Hispanic children, at 4 million and 5.6 million, respectively (Annie E. Casey Foundation 2011). According to a seminal study of…

NCLB had a mission to increase school and teacher accountability in order to narrow the achievement gap and improve educational opportunities, particularly for traditionally disadvantaged students. The act utilized Adequate Yearly Progress as the method of assessing schools to determine if the schools needed to make improvements. Title…

signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, it was with the goal of making American students competitive in the global economy, and lowering the achievement gap for low-income and minority students. Educators and politicians were troubled by the intractable achievement gaps that seemed only to grow worse with each passing year. The achievement gap between white and minority students reached their lowest levels in 1988, and after that point had plateaued and stagnated. One of the major…

The achievement gap between rich and poor children extends little by little, and there is not an easy solution to close it. Our society sustains the idea that there must be a division of social classes. This is evident in the way the neighborhoods in large cities are constructed. The rich are secluded in the hills, while the poor live in the communities with factories and liquor stores on every corner. The social construct in the United States is to be blamed for this gap because it allows for…

are given the opportunity to a free education, yet the value of that education differs greatly from school to school, even within city limits. The state of California bases much of its allocation of funds on local property taxes, test scores, and student attendance. A school in an area with lower average home value also receives fewer funds from the state government and therefore reduces the number of special programs that a school can offer, which can be detrimental to students of lower…

within white communities has created racial achievement gaps in education, thus giving White students with an abundance of educational and financial resources, a dominant position of success in society. Because of the unequal distribution of wealth and cultural resources, privilege is a problem in the United States. People generally associate privilege with rich, White males but fail to realize that is…

The United States classifies our hierarchical class structure by the income brackets individuals reside in. These brackets rank the poorest poor to the most elite. The basis of the levels is on income, wealth, education, and occupation. The sections of a pyramid sort the classes into their group, with the majority of the population concentrated towards the lower levels. Political and economic power is fixated in the smallest socioeconomic bracket occupied by America’s wealthiest and most…