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The lawsuit alleged that education was a fundamental right and that wealth-based discrimination in the provision of education (such as a fundamental right), created in the poor, or those of lesser wealth, a constitutionally suspect class, who were to be protected from the discrimination.
their level of education in particular. For example, the results that overarching education reforms such as No Child Left Behind have had on Hispanic students show that improving their educational condition may not depend solely on improving schools or curricula but also on other factors such as the children’s’ socio-economic situation.
The significant findings of the experiment were as follows: [7] [8] Impact of child care/preschool on reading and math achievement, and cognitive ability, at age 21: An increase of 1.8 grade levels in reading achievement; An increase of 1.3 grade levels in math achievement; A modest increase in Full-Scale IQ (4.4 points), and in Verbal IQ (4.2 ...
There are countries, Italy for example, that have a legal concept of social exclusion. In Italy, " esclusione sociale " is defined as poverty combined with social alienation, by the statute n. 328 (11-8-2000), that instituted a state investigation commission named " Commissione di indagine sull'Esclusione Sociale " (CIES) to make an annual ...
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.
Many schools find demographically similar groups of students struggling in academics, language, discipline, graduation rates, and other markers of student success. Once these patterns are identified, social justice leaders equip staff and students with the skills necessary to address discrepancies in student learning needs.
Because education plays a role in income, social capital, criminal activity and even the educational attainment of others it becomes possible that a positive feedback loop where the lack of education will perpetuate itself throughout a social class or group. The outcomes can be highly problematic at the K-12 level as well.
For example, the average daily income of an extremely poor person has in most developing nations increased from $0.74 in 1981 to only $0.78 in 2010. In India, on the other hand, it increased from $0.84 to $0.96, and in China from $0.67 to $0.95.