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Intersectionality is a very important part of identity. It changes the way people see and interact with each other and the bias people have, whether they are aware of it or not. Intersectionality is using the combination of layers of identity such as race, gender, sexuality, or ability, and looking at them together rather than individual pieces.
People are diverse. There are people in this world that are different races, genders, abilities, and sexual orientations. Identity is often formed by a combination of these pieces. For example, I am an able-bodied, heterosexual, white female. Each of those pieces come together to form who I am and they influence the way I think about myself and the way I am treated in everyday life. Without one of those …show more content…

A study from PLOS decided to examine ow multiple social factors come together to influence outcomes. They knew that it was necessary to stop looking at one factor to find a single factor that causes the issue of low academic success or low hopes for the future children in school. They looked at race, socioeconomic status, and gender and how these factors influenced children in school, both individually and together. They wanted to examine how these factors combine to create inequality. They had several outcome factors, such as test scores and self-concept, that helped them see how each piece of identity affected …show more content…

The low income classes had different gender and race gaps than wealthier classes. Students that were from lower income classes had less gaps in academic achievement between race and gender. The students that were from wealthier classes had more gaps between students of different races and genders. It is interesting to see that the combination of different factors changes the result of the study. If the study were to focus only on race, the results would be very different. The students have different levels of achievements inside and outside the classroom because of race, gender, and socioeconomic factors combined. It is not just one factor or another that changes the way students perform. A lot of this is to do with how the students are taught to think about themselves in these settings. The wealth factor completely changes how students perform combined with race and gender, and we would not know about that if we didn't study how all of the different pieces fit. Looking at one factor as the sole cause for something leaves out the important parts that may be the real

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Darling-Hammond broke the article into different sections which made the flow of the paper easier to read and understand when a new topic was introduced. By separating the sections of the article, she allowed a new discussion to occur underneath the overall topic of unequal opportunity with education. The author also used factual information to further back the observations being made. An example of this would be when she started the discussion about the end of legal segregation within the school systems and noted the scores of African-American students Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to climb 54 points between 1976 and 1994, while the white students remained the same (Darling-Hammond,. 1998). Darling-Hammond brings this statistic into the article because it strengthens her argument that equal opportunity for education causes students to achieve better overall grades and test scores due to the availability of resources.

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“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

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Additionally, the author mentions that according to the professor’s research, the “score gap between American students and those in the highest-ranked countries” decreases by “25 percent in math and 40 percent in reading” once adjustments for the student’s socioeconomic status have been made. However, this problem is getting harder for public schools to solve as “[t]he public school population is getting poorer”. Porter then introduces Andreas Schleicher, the top educational expert of O.E.C.D who runs the PISA tests, as Schleicher firmly disagrees with Professor Carnoy’s claims. According to Professor Carnoy’s results, “fewer than 15 percent” of American students should be from families of lower socioeconomic status, but Schleicher found that “65 percent of principals in American schools say at least 30 percent of their students come from disadvantaged families”.

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This is also the cause of what we call “achievement gaps”, which is the disparity of academic performance between white students and students of a minority, along with students from low income families and those from higher income families. Jonathan Kozol and Diane Ravitch are two different writers who wrote on similar claims, however, they both had written their pieces with different strategies to convey their arguments. In “Still Separate, Still Unequal”, Jonathon Kozol berates the

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The schools that are located in higher socioeconomic areas obtain much greater funding due to the parents earning more and therefore being able to fund the school better. In today's society, the leading cause for not obtaining a higher education is the cost of education and therefore Americans who have better upbringings usually receive the best education there is to offer and often choose to seek higher education because they are able to. The effects that are reflected from these financial variations between people of higher socioeconomic backgrounds and ones of people who are not as financially well off inevitably build barriers for the individuals who endure lower education. Not growing up with financial freedom and therefore not being able to afford college has a large impact on the individual's life as an adult. These individuals who are not able to receive higher education are left with low-paying jobs and health issues caused by overworking their bodies and not having the

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In Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education “Race could make or break a student's education, because teachers are less likely to understand a student's learning style, teachers are to blame the students if teachings are not working.” (Linda Darling-Hammond). “Robert Dreeben at University of Chicago did a research on, 300 Chicago first graders African-American and white students who achieved comparable levels on reading skills.” (Linda Darling-Hammond) The results of the test is comparable but the African American students wasn’t given the same level, the white students test was on level and the black student's test was below level.

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The definition of someone’s identity is the distinct personality of an individual. There are a lot of factors that determines someone’s identity. Things such as your race, role in society, and your faith. Throughout our lives, we seek out people who we can identify with. We reach out to others and learn from interests they have and we evaluate their responses to us.

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Higher income families can afford their students to take prep classes, whereas lower income families can’t afford it. Lower income families are in areas where the education isn’t as sophisticated. Parents don’t have the tools needed to advance their kids. Test scores correlate with family income which means the higher ones family income people predict the higher ones test score (Soares and Ovaska). High school grades reflect years of effort rather than a simple test score.

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