Education is a very important part of everybody’s life. Whether a person is an adult or a child people still learn new things each and every day. Every generation is filled with new children who are more impressionable and tend to learn quicker than adults. Most of our lives are spent in schools, colleges, or universities trying to get a degree that will work in our chosen profession. Even as people continue to work in their chosen field, they continue to learn different things. The articles “Equalizing Opportunity: Dramatic Difference in Children’s Home Life and Health Mean That Schools Can’t Do It Alone” by Richard Rothstein and “The Power of Talking To Your Baby” by Tina Rosenberg helps demonstrate how important education is for children.
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Unequal access to education can negatively impact children according to their family income. The article, “The Power of Talking to Your Baby” by Tina Rosenberg helps readers to understand how a family income can affect a child’s income. According to Rosenberg, “. . . families on welfare heard about 600 words per hour. The working class heard 1200. . professional families heard 2100. . .”(290). A child that is from a poor family hears one thousand five hundred more words less than a child from a professional family. While a child from a working class family hears nine hundred words more than that of a poor child. An education gap soon starts to form between children from different social statuses. These gaps in vocabulary are causing the poor children to be more underprepared than the rest of the children when preschool starts. The more words a child hears as they grow up, the more they become mentally advanced. The more advanced children are more prepared than any other child for kindergarten. Rosenberg states, “In Providence, more only one in three children enter school ready for kindergarten reading” (289). This proved Rosenberg’s theory that …show more content…
“Equalizing Opportunity: Dramatic Difference in Children’s Home Like and Health Means That Schools Can’t Do It Alone” by Richard Rothstein talks about several problems that poor families are more likely to face. Rothstein advocates, “Overall, lower-class income children are in poorer health from undiagnosed vision problems, lack of dental care, poor nutrition and more. . .” (16). Since poor families do not have that much money, the parents will not take their children to the doctor unless it is an emergency. Be as it may by not taking their children to the doctors when their child is sick leads to the majority of low-class income families to have poor health. Throughout the article, Rosenberg goes on the write about the health risks and problem that can and will plague poor income family children. Rothstein offers, “Low-income children with asthma are about 80 percent more likely than middle class children to miss more than seven days of school” (17). Poor children that have asthma do not receive the treatment that is available to other children that have asthma. Most poor income parents do not have the money and cannot afford to buy an inhaler to help their child. When an asthma attack happens, a child may lose sleep, become less focused, and more tired throughout the day. These side effects will cause the child to fall behind in class for not being able to have a simple treatment. A
Unequal access to education can negatively impact children according to their family income. The article, “The Power of Talking to Your Baby” by Tina Rosenberg helps readers to understand how a family income can affect a child’s income. According to Rosenberg, “. . . families on welfare heard about 600 words per hour. The working class heard 1200. . professional families heard 2100. . .”(290). A child that is from a poor family hears one thousand five hundred more words less than a child from a professional family. While a child from a working class family hears nine hundred words more than that of a poor child. An education gap soon starts to form between children from different social statuses. These gaps in vocabulary are causing the poor children to be more underprepared than the rest of the children when preschool starts. The more words a child hears as they grow up, the more they become mentally advanced. The more advanced children are more prepared than any other child for kindergarten. Rosenberg states, “In Providence, more only one in three children enter school ready for kindergarten reading” (289). This proved Rosenberg’s theory that …show more content…
“Equalizing Opportunity: Dramatic Difference in Children’s Home Like and Health Means That Schools Can’t Do It Alone” by Richard Rothstein talks about several problems that poor families are more likely to face. Rothstein advocates, “Overall, lower-class income children are in poorer health from undiagnosed vision problems, lack of dental care, poor nutrition and more. . .” (16). Since poor families do not have that much money, the parents will not take their children to the doctor unless it is an emergency. Be as it may by not taking their children to the doctors when their child is sick leads to the majority of low-class income families to have poor health. Throughout the article, Rosenberg goes on the write about the health risks and problem that can and will plague poor income family children. Rothstein offers, “Low-income children with asthma are about 80 percent more likely than middle class children to miss more than seven days of school” (17). Poor children that have asthma do not receive the treatment that is available to other children that have asthma. Most poor income parents do not have the money and cannot afford to buy an inhaler to help their child. When an asthma attack happens, a child may lose sleep, become less focused, and more tired throughout the day. These side effects will cause the child to fall behind in class for not being able to have a simple treatment. A