Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study is to determine if there is in fact a direct correlation between academic performance in the k-12 setting through the lens of race and SES. This paper will explore the concept based off of two different races: Caucasian Americans and African Americans. The topic of academic performance in the k-12 years of school is often over looked. These years are considered the foundational years in which students begin to adapt to their environment. Using data obtained from multiple journal articles, I plan to examine different opinions and connect them with factual data.
Introduction
Is there a direct correlation between academic performance in the k-12 setting through the lens of race and socio
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I tend to explore poverty as an outside-of-school factor and its influence on the inside-of-school experiences and outcome of students. I plan to consider the unified space of learning, instructional practices, and poverty. I decided to use race as an analytic site not to suggest that people are in poverty because of their race but to demonstrate how race can be a noticeable factor in how people experience and inhabit the world and consequently education. My point is that we (those of us in education and who care about it) should work to eradicate poverty for all students, not just students of color. However, we need to understand and question why a disproportionate number of students of color live in poverty and are from lower socioeconomic …show more content…
Students whose parents hold higher competence perceptions of their offspring receive higher grades, achieve higher scores on standardized tests, and stay longer in school than do those students whose parents hold lower perceptions (Gut, Grob, & Reinman 2013). In essence, parents’ perceptions of children’s competence may act as self-fulfilling predictions in the way parents communicate perceptions, either indirectly or directly, to their children in everyday exchanges or provide them with support and opportunities to learn, which in turn may directly or indirectly determine the way children perceive education and achieve at