Parents around the world want their children to have the best quality education and life. However, the quality of education between low income students and wealthy students is noticeable from the structure of their schools to the classes offered. Whether we blame the school system for lack of success of students or the living circumstances of the students’ family, we must admit there is a gap of success among impoverish students and affluent students. Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Kozol are both educators that have dedicated their lives’ work to fight and change the quality of education for minorities.
When it comes to the topic of the achievement gap, Kozol’s argument in Still Separate, Still Unequal, was that schools across the United States continue to be segregated especially in urban areas where students lacking resources are causing low performance scores. Where, Ravitch argues, in The Facts about the Achievement Gap, that the achievement gaps are not caused because Hispanic or Black students are any less intelligent than white students, but because white students have better economic and social …show more content…
The government has tried to assist in closing the gap by requiring NAEP testing and passing the No Child Left Behind Act, but it has been enough to close the expanding gap and it puts lots of pressure on schools. Schools are required to show improvement in students’ performance with tests and they lose focus on what really matter. Their students’ learning. Instead of teaching their students what they should learn, they are teaching them how to pass a test like NAEP. In her articles Ravitch suggest that, “the achievement gaps are rooted in social, political, and economic structures” (pg. 62). She doesn’t believe we shouldn’t blame schools for something that they can’t control. Teachers only spend 6-7 hours a day with their students and there is only so much they can
When it comes to the topic of the achievement gap, Kozol’s argument in Still Separate, Still Unequal, was that schools across the United States continue to be segregated especially in urban areas where students lacking resources are causing low performance scores. Where, Ravitch argues, in The Facts about the Achievement Gap, that the achievement gaps are not caused because Hispanic or Black students are any less intelligent than white students, but because white students have better economic and social …show more content…
The government has tried to assist in closing the gap by requiring NAEP testing and passing the No Child Left Behind Act, but it has been enough to close the expanding gap and it puts lots of pressure on schools. Schools are required to show improvement in students’ performance with tests and they lose focus on what really matter. Their students’ learning. Instead of teaching their students what they should learn, they are teaching them how to pass a test like NAEP. In her articles Ravitch suggest that, “the achievement gaps are rooted in social, political, and economic structures” (pg. 62). She doesn’t believe we shouldn’t blame schools for something that they can’t control. Teachers only spend 6-7 hours a day with their students and there is only so much they can