“The intent behind closing these gaps is to break the connection between race or family income and achievement while at the same time continuing to improve the performance of the top students. ”(28) Gaps between race and wealth have always been issues in schools. Historically, children living in poverty are more likely to score lower on tests than those
She points out that around the time the separations start, puberty and the questions of identifying themselves start to arise, making the black kids feel like outcasts to the white kids. While kids start to segregate themselves, the issues at hand being to strengthen, making them harder to fix as the kids age. With segregation rates as high as they still were, Kozol then goes on to argue that schools reflect lives of the students attending the schools, which corresponds to the dominant races of the school. I agree with what Kozol argues that white schools are normally better built and nicer, reflecting the higher income families. Dominantly black and Hispanic schools reflect much lower income families and are typically broken down, such as one elementary school he described.
The video “Tale of Two Schools: Race and Education on Long Island” presents David and Owen, two African-American students with similar backgrounds and grades who attend two different high schools in separate districts that have drastically different access to resources, community support, income, etc. Wyandanch Memorial High School is located in a poor district, while South Side High School is located in Rockville Center which is a more affluent and diverse district. The effects of the districts having varying levels of access to quality resources and diversity is exemplified throughout the video with regards to the way the students interact with each other, their grades, and their careers after high school. The lack of resources of Wyandanch
The school encouraged students to excel in education. Graduation rates were high, and there was adequate funding. It is important to look at race, ethnicity, and equality because it has influence of the quality of education. It has also been historically determined that race influences funding and the
The first African American woman to receive their doctoral degree in psychology is Inez Beverly Prosser. Prosser first began teaching in Texas segregated school systems. She graduated in 1993 from the University of Cincinnati with her PhD in educational psychology and she is well known for her dissertation, "The Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools.” In her dissertation she found African American students significantly benefited from segregated schools compared to an integrated schools. This is because they received more affection and support versus an integrated school where they had problems adjusting academically, socially and even in accepting their own identity.
Daniel J. Losen wrote a policy brief called “Discipline Policies, Successful Schools and Racial Justice.” This piece is a compilation of reviews conducted by researchers that address racial disparities in schools regarding disciplinary policies. Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, delivered a speech that suggested “that students with disabilities and Black students, especially males, were suspended far more than their White counterparts.” For example, research conducted in 2006 found that “over 28% of Black male middle school students had been suspended at least once, nearly three times the rate for White males.” () Another key point is that law makers and school officials should keep schools safe while using alternative practical methods
Most areas with low income or poor housing tend to not live in areas with good schools systems. Poor communities tend to not have the money to fund schools for better education sources like teachers, equipment or school trips. Segregated schools may feature a higher disciplinary or crime rate as well as lower graduation rates and SAT scores. Studies have proven that police must interfere more often in segregated schools for violence and to help assist for disciplinary actions.
Other forms of segregation, such as gender and social class segregation, are still prominent throughout numerous schools nationwide, and it is not always intentional. For example, the city of Detroit contains plenty of schools that holds students coming from high-poverty neighborhoods, which significantly barriers their way to achievement. Most of these students are African Americans, and because of the struggle with poverty, it is hard to obtain an acceptable education, therefore, schools become segregated. Because of the class segregation, below poverty line schools have a reputation of notable lower standardized test scores. In addition, some gender segregation in schools may have statistically higher test scores, but this isn’t the case for all gender segregated schools.
Youth of color specifically are at an increased risk of being suspended at an extended time out of schools. Consequently, they are casted into the streets, which ultimately sends them into juvenile detentions or into prison. The problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality in the discipline of schools is not new issue. In 1974, in one of the earliest investigations of disciplinary policies and practices, “the Children’s Defense Fund revealed that suspension rates for African American students were between two and three times higher than those for white students”( Thomas Rudd February 05, 2015) Ongoing research are still showing that in many places, this problem have worsened significantly.
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
For the first time in the history of our country the number of children of color, specifically African-American, Latino and Asian are quietly passing the number of white children. This change impacts not only our nation’s public schools, but will impact the culture of our entire nation and poses a conundrum for society. In order to maintain our status as a Super Power in the world we must improve the academic outcome for the new and diverse majority of American students. Their success is linked to the well being of our entire country. There are other challenges faced by educators today, such as more students living in poverty, more ELL students, changes in curriculum and environmental changes.
Therefore, the school district’s income can affect school spending and quality which in turn affects educational outcomes (Farley, 750). As neighborhood segregation continues, some school districts get richer and richer and others get poorer thereby increasing discrepancies in school funding (Massey 134). Low income children become concentrated in neighborhoods with few resources spent on schooling and the education quality is seldomly high due to lack of the school district ability to hire high quality teachers, provide important educational supplies thereby, the quality of declines. In the mean time, children that live in richer neighborhoods have more resources and their education increases and is higher
School Discipline: An Analysis Through Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory The enforcement and structure of school discipline demonstrate Critical Legal Studies’ theory of the relationship between law and society because disciplinary actions and punitive punishments in the education system disproportionately criminalize marginalized students, create a school-to-prison pipeline, and perpetuate racist power structures outlined in Critical Race Theory. Critical Legal Studies is the belief that law is not neutral, but rather reflects social, political, and economic realities. Additionally, it acknowledges that the law specifically advances the interests of the privileged, and disadvantages the marginalized. The movement focuses on underlying
One thing you have to take into account is the neighborhood the students are growing up in. This can affect students because some grow up in rough places, and don’t have many role models or somebody to ask for help when
Brittney Foster SOCY 423 UMUC 03/01/2018 Racial integration of schools Racial integration is a situation whereby people of all races come together to achieve a common goal and hence making a unified system. Racial integration of schools is well elaborated in the two articles by Pettigrew and Kirp. These two articles say that combination in the American schools since 1954 has unceremoniously ushered out the Brown versus Board of Education which was a decision made by the Supreme Court. The topic of discussion of these two articles hence is relevant to our course since it gives us the light of how racial desegregation and racial integration shaped America’s history.
