Rich Class Education Vs Poor Education

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Education is the biggest issue that effects our society in a positive or negative way in our society, due to the increased education level of United States of America. Proper education can make students think more broadly and open up the way they think in various way. It’s true that most of the people who succeed in their own area, attained an education in their major. Therefore, lots of parents want to provide the best education as possible to their children, because they believe that better education is directly related to their children’s success and achievement in the future. However, there are significant numbers of problems in current education system and our society is not ready to provide proper educating strategy to students.
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There is a difference between curriculum of Rich class School and Poor class school. According to Neal Conan, who is the host of the National Public Radio(NPR), “Students from poor families are more likely to score lower on standardized tests and less likely to finish college than students from more affluent families” (NPR, 7). This can explain students who are from Poor class have less ability and less will about study against the students who are in Rich class. Also, Amy Wilkins, who is the debater of the NPR show, argues that “We see in lots of parts of our society that bridge getting narrower and narrower, and education is another place where the bridge is getting narrow” (NPR, 7). She explains the achievement gap between Poor class students and Rich class students as a bridge, it is getting narrow due to the gap is getting bigger and bigger. In Korea, as an example of this, there is huge issue about private education. Most of private schools and tutors are very expensive, so it is hard to take private education to Poor class students. On the other hand, some students, who were born to Rich parents, and enroll in private educations like institutions or tutors, so there are significantly huge gaps on the transcripts. All of those information can explain how income gap affects to students’ achievement in …show more content…
This system is totally wrong to this century, it’s purpose does not fit into the reality and present circumstances. Also, it does not utilize better technology and developed mind well. To solve these problems, federal and local government, department of education and each schools need to make effort as they can in the way to develop the education system by making laws or restrictions and observing students’ accomplishment. The government has not discussed education problems, but now it is the time for them to realize how important it is. Without further improvement in educating system, students would not learn what they really need to achieve their goals. We need to provide “true” education rather than “fancy”

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