Environmental Instability Research

Environmental instability causes a student to have priorities over schools, such as survival and mental health needs that cause them to have less motive to do good in school. As Dian Schaffhauser has said, “lack of motivation, not just lack of ability” plays a crucial role in how students perform. This lack of motivation, however, though sounds simple, goes much deeper than just having a little will for school, rather it is not even getting the opportunity to even have that motivation. These problems are not limited to those from lower salary families who are struggling to pay rent or keep food on the table. There a number of different situations that can hinder student success. Shannon Cavanagh has noted that there is a large “link between family instability and young people’s” academic achievement. Especially now more than ever …show more content…
Rather they care more about urging their students to have fun, join sports, and other extracurriculars to experience the full school experience when they should be promoting good grades instead, which may account for the test score gap. While this may stand out to some, it is mentioned that schools that are situated in stable neighborhoods are “competitive with any nation in the world” (Strauss) while it is only those that have family instability [that have a] marginal, negative association with” (Cavanagh) test scores. America’s low scores are not caused by one big, bad, unanimous score, but rather a bundle of low scores in the midst of some good scores that bring down the overall average. The problem, then, cannot be caused by problems with all the American schools not stressing academic success, or otherwise, the whole student body of the country will have low scores, nonetheless, the students in nice communities are still able to score exceptionally