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Families trapped in the cycle of poverty have few to no resources. There are many self-reinforcing disadvantages that make it virtually impossible for individuals to break the cycle. [4] Lack of financial capital, education, and social connections all play a role in keeping the impoverished within the cycle of poverty. Those who are born into ...
As a nurse at two elementary schools, Michelle Lally of Rockford, Illinois, is used to looking after children's health. "On a good day before COVID, I'd get spit at, chewed on and bopped around by ...
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.
Board of Education led to the desegregation of schools by federal law, but decades of inferior education, segregation of household salaries between whites and people of color, and racial wealth gaps have left people of color at a disadvantage. According to the EdBuild report from 2019, non-white school districts receive 23 billion dollars less ...
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The hostility, which causes students to feel unsafe or uncomfortable, has led to several detrimental changes in behavior: Nearly 8 in 10 students (78%) said they avoided extracurricular activities ...
The first is directly related to 'the material dimension' of education. In this case, financial difficulties are the main reason why families do not manage to keep their children and adolescents in school. The other major group of factors for school drop out falls into the 'subjective dimension' of the educational experience.
School size has a very strong non-linear correlation with dropout rate. A study done by Werblow found that increases in school size can be "associated with a 12% increase in average student dropout rate". [9] However, once a school becomes very large, its size seems to hardly affect dropout rates except for its effect on other factors. [3]