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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.
“The science of trauma is now telling us that a child’s brain actually changes,” one expert said. “If we know this, and if children in poverty actually have a right to education, it has to ...
Achievement gaps between boys and girls in the United States are more pronounced in reading and writing than in math and science. Traditionally, girls have outperformed boys in reading and writing. Although this gap may be minimal in kindergarten, it grows as students continue their education.
One of the most glaring effects of poverty on education is the achievement gap. Students from low-income households often face significant barriers to academic success, including limited access to ...
Students who both are special education students and of a minority face unequal chances for quality education to meet their personal needs. Special education referrals are, in most cases in the hands of the general education teacher, this is subjective and because of differences, disabilities can be overlooked or unrecognized.
Early education, starting in infancy and through third grade, is the policy antidote to prevent academic proficiency gaps — an increasingly important goal in the fact of Oklahoma’s rising poverty.
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 ...
When poverty is prescribed agency, poverty becomes something that happens to people. Poverty absorbs people into itself and the people, in turn, become a part of poverty, devoid of their human characteristics. In the same way, poverty, according to Green, is viewed as an object in which all social relations (and persons involved) are obscured.