In her article “When class became more important to a child’s education than race,” Sarah Garland (2013) describes how the class gap between the well-to-do and poverty-stricken families continue to grow. “Researchers say the expanding class gap in education is likely a byproduct of the country’s widening income inequality” When comparing the incomes of the classes, “Parents in the top quintile of income in the U.S. (households earning at least $102,000 in 2011, according to census data compiled by the Tax Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group) now spend more than double what parents in the second quintile (earning at least $62,000) spend on trips for their children-about $2,000 per year compared with $800, the Kaushal study found.” These are just a few examples of small things dividing the classes.
While the Klaitmans spend thousands of dollars on things such as karate classes, spanish classes, music classes, and preschool, the Lynches qualify for a government funded preschool. The Klaitmans and Lynches live …show more content…
The author uses Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech as an example of how the divide has shifted. The speech was given on August 28, 1963. The article says “black children lagged behind their white peers in school by more than three years”. This is an example of how race played a role in education a half-century ago, but now social classes play a bigger role. Studies have shown that “more and more seats in highly selective schools have been occupied by students from high-income families”. Not only that but “According to a 2011 research study by Stanford sociologist Sean Reardon, the test-score gap between the children of the poor (in the 10th percentile of income) and the children of the wealthy (in the 90th percentile) has expanded by as much as 40 percent and is now more than 50 percent larger than the black-white achievement gap--a reversal of the trend 50 years
While the Klaitmans spend thousands of dollars on things such as karate classes, spanish classes, music classes, and preschool, the Lynches qualify for a government funded preschool. The Klaitmans and Lynches live …show more content…
The author uses Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech as an example of how the divide has shifted. The speech was given on August 28, 1963. The article says “black children lagged behind their white peers in school by more than three years”. This is an example of how race played a role in education a half-century ago, but now social classes play a bigger role. Studies have shown that “more and more seats in highly selective schools have been occupied by students from high-income families”. Not only that but “According to a 2011 research study by Stanford sociologist Sean Reardon, the test-score gap between the children of the poor (in the 10th percentile of income) and the children of the wealthy (in the 90th percentile) has expanded by as much as 40 percent and is now more than 50 percent larger than the black-white achievement gap--a reversal of the trend 50 years