In today 's world a college education is highly required for most jobs. That piece of paper can be a big determining factor on what career fields a person is able to enter. Most wealthy families will send their children to college. I feel that wealth is a big following factor for kids who attend college because they can afford it, so why not give college a shot? If a family is wealthy than they most likely succeeded at something, and I assume they want nothing less for their kids. They probably view a college education/ degree as the key to success, or at least the first step to success. Eduardo Porter is a writer for New York Times, specializing in the Economic Scene section. Porter wrote an article that focuses specifically on the social
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This issue isn’t the most known problem associated with college, but it is the biggest, and it is growing each year. Students who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to attend college because they are considered to be already behind in the learning environment before they even start. Porter agrees with this statement as he says “On the day they start kindergarten, children from families of low socioeconomic status are already more than a year behind the children of college graduates in their grasp of both reading and math” (Porter). This is discouraging for students to know they are judged and stereotyped in their learning environment just because of where they come from. The social outlook on these kids education sticks with them for all of their life. In addition Sacks discusses how “ In their 2004 paper published by the Century Foundation, Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose found that more than 90 percent of the freshmen enrolled at the most selective 146 colleges and universities in the United States came from families in the top two quartiles of the socioeconomic distribution” (Sacks 77). If a student feels discouraged in their learning environment then why would they even try to keep going and aim to succeed a higher education. The higher socioeconomic quartiles are given support and stability to help them keep moving along, while the lower socioeconomic students are criticized from day one and given little to no support which causes low
This issue isn’t the most known problem associated with college, but it is the biggest, and it is growing each year. Students who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to attend college because they are considered to be already behind in the learning environment before they even start. Porter agrees with this statement as he says “On the day they start kindergarten, children from families of low socioeconomic status are already more than a year behind the children of college graduates in their grasp of both reading and math” (Porter). This is discouraging for students to know they are judged and stereotyped in their learning environment just because of where they come from. The social outlook on these kids education sticks with them for all of their life. In addition Sacks discusses how “ In their 2004 paper published by the Century Foundation, Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose found that more than 90 percent of the freshmen enrolled at the most selective 146 colleges and universities in the United States came from families in the top two quartiles of the socioeconomic distribution” (Sacks 77). If a student feels discouraged in their learning environment then why would they even try to keep going and aim to succeed a higher education. The higher socioeconomic quartiles are given support and stability to help them keep moving along, while the lower socioeconomic students are criticized from day one and given little to no support which causes low