Educational attainment in the United States

encouraged to do well in school, participate in a number of extra-curricular activities, and ultimately strive to do well in life. However, it was the safe community that I grew up in and my social class that had a significant impact on my educational attainment and personal life chances. The “cultural capital”, or the specific non-financial…

Colombo 81). The observed adolescents went into an MRI screening; the adolescents from a low-income family had lower volumes of gray matter than the adolescents with high-income families (Lipina, Colombo 82). Sebastián J. Lipina and Jorge A. Colombo states, “that at birth, all adolescents have the same amount of gray matter, but by toddlerhood the gray matter in the lower-income adolescents would already be less than the higher-income adolescents” (82). The brain is the second most important…

their lives. During Pineapple’s 3rd and 4th grade years, she had a total of seven teachers (173). Poverty has a direct correlation with how students are unable to study properly and progress through the school system. Many school children in the United States are currently living in record levels of poverty. Steve…

‘Well, that 's black’ (Peters, 1985). I think this is very important to point out. We cannot ignore the fact that people look different, from one another, but the symbolic associations with these differences are what make it an issue. Susan further states, “Well, I 've seen…

city which saw a decrease in graduation rates in the years after NCLB was implemented. According to a district report, in the 2009-2010 school year Harrisburg School District had a graduation rate of 52.95 percent, although several years later, the state of Pennsylvania reported a graduation rate in the city of only 38.6 percent. This drop of over fourteen points does not match the patterns observed in York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or the nation. A further study into the cause of this…

U.S. Government Should Be Scrapped The Constitution of the United States of America should be rewritten to better reflect what our government is today. ‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, relinquish control of the nation, suffer from domestic inequalities, are taught to accept any welfare, and realize that we have no chance of liberty, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’ The government that operates today is not…

comparison of both countries Canada and Ireland are very diverse countries located many miles apart with two different cultures; however these two countries are compared throughout this research with their economic systems and demographics of their state including some interesting factual statements of both countries. Diving into the general statistics of both economies including primary sectors of their GDP gives an idea of what country has better economic stability now and in the future.…

There are over 2.2 million people within the prison system in the United States. That is the highest prison population in the entire world. In the U.S, there are more prisons than colleges and in some parts of the country, there are more people in prison than in college. Throughout the country, there is a disturbing trend, “the school to prison pipeline.” The American Civil Liberties Union describes this trend as, “children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal…

However in many educational settings numerous families and their children face inequality and exclusion (Abstract: Ludovica Gambaro, Kit-ty Stewart, and Jane Waldfogel: March 2013). In the early years this could relate to gender ethnicity, disability, age, religion, belief…

Review of the Literature A recent study conducted by Education Trust (2016) found that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of…