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Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
At the very peak of school closures, COVID-19 affected 55.1 million students in 124,000 public and private U.S. schools. [1] The effects of widespread school shut-downs were felt nationwide, and aggravated several social inequalities in gender, technology, educational achievement, and mental health.
Not only important are resources students may or may not receive from family, but schools themselves vary greatly in the resources they give their students. On 2 December 2011, the U.S. Department of Education released that school districts are unevenly distributing funds, which are disproportionately underfunding low-income students. [106]
More children drop out of high school in US states with higher economic inequality. The United States Department of Education's measurement of the status dropout rate is the percentage of 16 to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. [1]
Discrimination in education is the act of discriminating against people belonging to certain demographics in enjoying full right to education. It is a violation of human rights. Education discrimination can be on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, race, economic condition, language spoken, caste, disability and religion.
The fact of the matter is quite simple — lack of funding means lack of art programs in schools during one's most formative years, and the potential long-term consequences of that could be ...
Schools not only provide education but also a setting for students to develop into adults, form future social status and roles, and maintain social and organizational structures of society. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Tracking is an educational term that indicates where students will be placed during their secondary school years. [3] "
a ^ Data on enrolment in tertiary education programmes is not available. b ^ Schools have started opening, but the majority remain closed. c ^ While all schools are open, universities have the choice to remain open or not. d ^ Universities were on school spring break, and hence closures not related to the coronavirus.