The Role Of Race In Education

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Race plays a major role in education, it is an important strategy for the ability to make contributions to one’s community, as well as to gain access to a better life. The factors that contribute to the problems are complex and vary to some degree, but they are identifiable. Like most minorities aren’t able to attend school outside of their neighborhoods, because of financial issues or not being educated enough to reach the expectations of higher learner. These issues evolve because minorities aren’t being educated effectively enough. Patterns of educational disparities are generally similar across ethnic and racial minority groups, but there are variations. For example, Latinos are characterized by having a large representation of immigrants

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