Black/White Educational Achievement Gap

The article below is an excerpt from the Policy Information Report, published by the Educational Testing Service and is based on 2008 NAEP data. Although the following discussion focuses on the Black/White educational achievement gap the paper discusses trends in the gap between Black and White educational attainment, school achievement, and contextual factors from the beginning of the 20th century to the present time. I believe mobility plays a big part in the gap. Being born and raised in a deprived neighborhood is hard to get out of because lack of opportunities, Income which can scare people away from schools when they see how much it is to go to college. Data shows that Blacks have lived in neighborhoods with very little social and …show more content…
steps would need to be taken to start this movement is to find or train people to be able to convey the importance of college and what it can do for them in the long run, and also be able to find ways to make school cheaper, such as scholarships. next would be to involve the public and bring awareness to this problem. To get people aware of what we are doing, we need to advertise, so we would need to do commercials, business cards, ads in the paper, flyers, social media etc. What I would do to engage others by developing a dialogue regarding this issue is to provide scientific facts, show them charts on how it has changed over periods of time, how it affects the way people live and where they live and show them visuals, and also what the benefits are of solving this issue are. The role I would personally assume to achieve this change is in the advertisement. This day and age everything found out more through the internet now than word of mouth. I believe I would do a good because I am very good at get people interested/ attracted to what they see on social media, flyers etc. So it would be my job to grab peoples attention to what is happening. To help forward solution I would use scientific data that shows what a positive effect it has on society and the people that we help. The longer this movement goes swell will provide more data because we will keep some type of the connection with the people we helped to see the differences we made in their lives. Which we can then us that data to show others how beneficial it is. I would you utilize public opinion positively for change. I would show that it’s not that they don 't want to better their lives, but that it is just harder for them and they do want the change. I would use that will for change to further push the movement further, to expand it and make it lager to