Minority Student Data Analysis

The topic of my current event this week is the new data comparing the poverty and education between white and minority students. I obtained this information from an online article on Yahoo! News. In almost every major United States metropolitan area, students of color are much more likely than whites to attend public schools by high concentrations of poverty, shows the analysis of federal data. In a wide range of cities all across the nation, the numbers shown in this analysis point to a massive racial imbalance in exposure to concentrated poverty. For example, in St. Louis, 92 percent of black students attend schools where most of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income, but only 27 percent of white students do. In Dallas, 38 percent of white students attend mostly low-income schools compared to 95 percent of black and 97 percent of Latino students. …show more content…
One reason that fewer whites attend schools with mostly low-income students is because low-income whites are less likely than non-whites, even at the same income, to live in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, says Sean Reardon, a professor at Stanford University. But another factor is the persistent segregation of both neighborhoods and schools. A majority of the cities with the largest gap between white and non-white students attending low-income schools also rank among the most residentially segregated cities in the country, according to National Equity Atlas data. This event is important because it brings attention to inequalities that minority children all around the United States might be facing, and the information is shocking to hear because even after 60 years since Brown vs Board of Education, the article highlights the continued racial and economic segregation in