“There’s no reason that the zip code you’re born into should determine your success or failure in school.” Whoever has said this quote, is completely correct. Children have a more innocent outlook on life. They do not yet know the difference between a good or bad education, and do not know they’ve been set up for failure. The documentary, Waiting For Superman, revolves around children who were born into an insufficient education zone with parents who can’t resolve the issue for various reasons.
Within the reading of chapter four of Our Kids by Robert Putnam one key point of his argument is that it really matters where kids attend school and who they are attending school with. The overall growing class gap is extremely evident within the American school system. However, schools are not responsible for the creation of the opportunity gap because the gap already exists before schools are put into the picture. While this may be true, the schools that kids from affluent families are attending are significantly different than schools that children from poorer families are attending. This could be a product of the fact that affluent and poor families are usually not living in the same areas.
have it quite as well, however. His father was still alive and well, but left Wes with Mary, and didn’t care to have a relationship with his son. One of the few times Wes interacted with his father was when he went to his Mamie’s house. His Mamie was his father’s mother, and his father just happened to be drunk. Wes Moore, the author, attended a very expensive private school, but he did not try to excel.
The term “Corrupt Bargain” alludes to three noteworthy occurrences in American history in which political understanding was dictated by congressional or presidential activities that numerous saw to be degenerate from diverse points of view. Two of these included determination of vague or debated discretionary votes from the United States presidential race process, and the third included the questioned utilization of a presidential exoneration. In each of the three cases, the president so lifted served a solitary term, or particular opening, and either did not run once more, or was not reelected when he ran. In the 1824 decision, no through and through dominant part was accomplished and the procedure required determination in the House of Representatives,
Desire to be More Two great men from two different times fought great odds to become two of the greatest writers during times when they were pushed to fail. Frederick Douglas born a slave and Malcolm X a known criminal both struggled to find educational opportunities. Unlike other minorities of their time they both strived for more. They wanted to be separated from the norm, and they knew that in order for that to happen they would have to find a way to learn. They both knew in order to make a difference in life they would have to become proficient readers and writers, the fundamentals of education.
The author talking about the distribution of students in a school with less money says, “even within urban school districts, schools with high concentrations of low-income and minority students receive fewer instructional resources than others.” Now I do agree with what this says because if schools get the better books or better teaching technology it can affect
Many of the schools lacked advanced classes and did not offer music, arts or languages. Schools were forced to operate with a bare necessity mindset. The example of “realistic goals” was presented in regard to the fact that lower income schools should accommodate education needs based on, ”the kinds of limited career objectives that seem logical or fitting for these low income children” (74). For some the practice of bare minimum funding seemed acceptable. Extremely high dropout rates are interpreted as a poor investment for funding.
Children who grow up in poverty are faced with a series of issues which impact their education and social atmosphere. In both the school and home setting these children lack the proper resources which they need to succeed academically. Across the country, people have begun creating programs which aim to help children in poverty succeed, despite their socioeconomic status. These programs range from after-school reading, tutoring services, charter schools, and free summer programs. All of these programs provide children with extra academic help which they may not be receiving in school or at home.
in Organizational Development and a Ph.D. is in Human Development. Jensen also synthesized brain research and developed practical applications for teachers for over two decades. I believe his purpose for writing this book was to put focus on the way poverty affects students and to give fellow educators theories, research, and strategies to hopefully ensure success against despite the present challenges. Summary The book has a total of 6 chapters not including the introduction.
I was amazed to read that in the affluent school, some of the children mention they will rather not be rich. Rich meant that they could not work and they will rather work since they liked working. In the executive school, I was bothered by the comment that a teacher stated. A teacher associated low-income children with discipline problems. I think that teacher generalized an observation he
According to Hodgkinson et al, there are “disparities in poverty rates depending on age, race or ethnicity, family structure, and geographic location. Although the largest number of poor and low income children are white, minority children are disproportionately affected, particularly African American, American Indian, and Hispanic children. In 2013, Hispanic and African American children were ~3 times more likely than white and Asian children to be poor. Children raised by single parents and children raised in the South or West are also more likely to be poor or low income than children residing in the Northeast” (Hodgkinson et al, 2016). Children and youth are a vulnerable population because they have no control over their situation or environment;
So, knowing all the negative results that come from getting an education in the terrible conditions of these schools, many families who have a low socio- economic status try to avoid it all together. However, these families’ resources are scarce and their options are quite few. They could try paying for a private school, which can be very costly, or take their chances in
The three authors mostly focus on poverty and the setbacks it influences in a student’s schooling. The articles explain and show how children who come from low income families generally struggle in school because they are distracted by other factors in their lives. Hunger is a common distraction to students in this situation and can lead to lower levels of academic performance or even developmental stagnation due to a lack of proper nutrition. Aside from hunger, the authors reference poverty as causing a barrier between students based on their family’s economic status and causing children to have a difficult time focusing on their schoolwork because they are distracted by what is going on outside of school, especially when the routine is broken around weekends and
Although poverty is an enormous barrier for students, society believes that this is no excuse for continuing to live in poverty (Ladd, Noguera, Reville, & Starr, 2016). However, it is easy for the person who did not grow up in poverty and did not have serious
Many children in low income homes, tend to score lower on test scores, and have higher drop out rates this may be due to lack of preparation, not having access to early childhood education programs, which means entering kindergarten, they are lacking the basic skills such as lack of vocabulary. Studies have shown, low income children enter school having heard 30 million fewer words than children from middle class families. These children also face poor nutrtion making it harder to concentrate and higher mobility, moving from school to school. Dysfunctional families also plays a role in a childs development, children coming home to stressful households can put a strain on them. (Jeanette DeForge January 08, 2015 http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/war_on_poverty_8_challenges_po.html)
