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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 immensity of the CTE funding gap is indicative of the magnitude of the challenge ahead: America’s college-for-all fixation can’t be stopped by fiddling with the current system.
A college education also increases youth marriageability increasing the chances for youth to marry a legal citizen and obtain legal status through familial relationship. [18] The majority of undocumented children are growing up with legal access to public education but face legal barriers to higher education (Abrogate, 2006).
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 ...
Socioeconomic status can play a significant role in an individual's enrollment, performance, and completion of their college degree and pursuit of higher education. Children with parents in the top 1% of the income distribution are 77 times more likely to attend an elite college or university than children with parents in the bottom 20% of the ...
When given the choice between saving for their kids' college education or saving for their own retirement, 56% of Americans said they would choose to save for their kids' college, according to a...
In the study, gay men were significantly less likely to fail to graduate from high school compared to completely heterosexual men (3.94% vs. 9.91%) and were more likely to complete college (43.86% vs. 26.46%). [60] Additionally, about 52% of gay men age 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the national average.
The porous Texas-Mexico border is a result of President Joe Biden’s bad policies. His decisions to lift the “Remain in Mexico” and stop the Title 42 policy have catapulted the border into an ...