Achievement Gap In Education

The achievement gap between white and minority students stemmed from segregated schools in the 1950’s. When desegregation happened the black students who attended the same schools at the white students still were not learning at the same pace. Their education was not taken as seriously by the teachers. The gap is growing at an intense pace. All over the United States white students are towering over minority students in the education system. There has been many attempts and different tactical strategies to solve the problem; many have failed and the few that worked only made small changes. The achievement gap will never be fully closed because of the surrounding community, the education level of parents/ guardians, and lack of money. For …show more content…
Most of the lower educated parents are African American and education might not be the primary problem for them; it might be food and a house for their families to stay in. They are role models to their children and children look to be like their parents, if nobody tells them to be better than or more than what their parents have done. Living in poverty and not having parents who focus on maintaining good grades, they lack a sense of motivation and knowledge on colleges and secondary schooling. According to Perry, “Among low-income students, college readiness dropped to just 11 percent...determined that it was poverty...” (1). The poverty that these students live in is affecting their scores and how prepared there are for school. Their parents are not preparing them for college as mush as the wealthy parents do for their children or providing them with the same …show more content…
The argument of this paper says the achievement gap will never fully be closed or slowed down to a moderate rate. The factors of the achievement gap have been going on too long to be stopped. There has been many attempts and different tactical strategies to solve the problem; many have failed and the few that worked only made small changes. The achievement gap has many different “causes” depending on which side of the argument you choose. Some might say that the gap is not increasing as rapidly as it has been doing before. The opposing side would say that the achievement is decreasing. The achievement gap between white and minority students is one of the most controversial topic in education. The research for it is very unstable and there’s a lot that factors into