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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.
Inadequate school funding has a disproportionate impact on low-income students and high-poverty schools. 14% of 4th graders at poor schools were at or above proficient in reading and 17% at math while in low poverty schools, more than twice as many were at proficiency or above in reading and 60% were for math.
Dozens of teachers, parents and local school staff gathered at the Carver Community School on Saturday morning for a meeting to discuss increasing funding for students in poverty.
This is holding back money from the schools that are in great need. High poverty schools have less-qualified teachers with a much higher turnover rate. [3] In every subject area, students in high poverty schools are more likely than other students to be taught by teachers without even a minor in their subject matter. [7]
Abaas Noor stood in front of two dozen other first-graders at Gideon Pond Elementary in Burnsville and started reading from a book he had written himself. As Abaas told his classmates about his ...
The education levels of the parents are shown to have an effect on the likelihood of child poverty. [5] Parents who have an education only up to a high school diploma or less are much more likely to be poor due to the lack of high-paying jobs for low-skilled workers. [5]
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
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