Education is still treated like a privilege instead of a right. Public education in urban areas is said to be significantly worse than in suburban areas. In fact only 19 percent of students from urban areas seek higher education compared to 70 percent of their suburban counterparts. According to research this is drastically different due to resources, teacher attrition rate, and the lack of parental support. Funds are given to the top performing schools living many low performing schools at the bottom. We need to dig deep and find the root of the problem because we are what we consistently produce and if we produce mediocrity in education our future scholars will as well. Overall we need to address the overall problem which is the fact that
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According to the website FeedingAmerica.org, statistics issued in 2015 show that in the United States there are 43.1 million people that live in poverty. Of those 43.1 million, 24.4 million are between ages 18-64, 14.5 million are children under the age of 18, and 4.2 million are senior citizens 65 years of age or older living in poverty. Today more than before, schools and education remains the key to escaping poverty, while poverty remains the biggest obstacle to education. There is a large number of students attending schools in high poverty communities who require support in many ways. Often times the teachers are at loss of how to help meet the students’ needs because of the many problems they come to school with already. With factors such as limited social mobility, stressful living conditions, poor education, and a lack of opportunities to exit poverty, a simple math problem turns into a burden instead of an opportunity. Ultimately, schooling is the key to breaking this cycle of poverty. Schools in communities of poverty deserve the bare essentials when it comes to education, such as high qualified teachers, text books, and safe facilities to concentrate only on schooling and nothing outside of it. When a community is ran successfully it will grow because the people living in it will grow and education can contribute to that. It is important to note that children of poverty do not have broken brains or limited intelligence. The issue is that their brains have not matured smoothly according to the scholarly article, “Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology Biomarkers: Is There a Role in Poverty and Education Outcome Research? By Pavlakis, A. E., Noble, K., Pavlakis, S. G., Ali, N. and Frank, Y. This is a result due to emotional and physical trauma caused by poverty. The United States of America may be a power house but in education
According to the website FeedingAmerica.org, statistics issued in 2015 show that in the United States there are 43.1 million people that live in poverty. Of those 43.1 million, 24.4 million are between ages 18-64, 14.5 million are children under the age of 18, and 4.2 million are senior citizens 65 years of age or older living in poverty. Today more than before, schools and education remains the key to escaping poverty, while poverty remains the biggest obstacle to education. There is a large number of students attending schools in high poverty communities who require support in many ways. Often times the teachers are at loss of how to help meet the students’ needs because of the many problems they come to school with already. With factors such as limited social mobility, stressful living conditions, poor education, and a lack of opportunities to exit poverty, a simple math problem turns into a burden instead of an opportunity. Ultimately, schooling is the key to breaking this cycle of poverty. Schools in communities of poverty deserve the bare essentials when it comes to education, such as high qualified teachers, text books, and safe facilities to concentrate only on schooling and nothing outside of it. When a community is ran successfully it will grow because the people living in it will grow and education can contribute to that. It is important to note that children of poverty do not have broken brains or limited intelligence. The issue is that their brains have not matured smoothly according to the scholarly article, “Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology Biomarkers: Is There a Role in Poverty and Education Outcome Research? By Pavlakis, A. E., Noble, K., Pavlakis, S. G., Ali, N. and Frank, Y. This is a result due to emotional and physical trauma caused by poverty. The United States of America may be a power house but in education