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In the early 20th century, Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families and enrolled in boarding schools. [5] [6] The purpose of this was to "civilize" and assimilate Indigenous communities into American society. Historically, African Americans in the United States experienced trouble accessing quality education.
Members of the working class commonly have a high school diploma and many have only some college education. Due to differences between middle and working class cultures, working class college students may face culture shock upon entering the post-secondary education system, with its "middle class" culture. [14]
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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Decades ago, a middle-income salary may have felt like enough to live a “middle-class lifestyle.” Today, Americans say that they’d need to make over $186,000 per year on average to feel ...
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 ...
Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
A fifth-grade class in Paramus, New Jersey, c. 1957. Typically, the curriculum in public elementary education is determined by individual school districts or county school system. The school district selects curriculum guides and textbooks that reflect a state's learning standards and benchmarks for a given grade level.