Educational attainment in the United States

the Eritrean and Somalian borders. The Ethiopian diaspora in the United States is large and most entered as refugees. There are close to 300,000 Ethiopian immigrants and their children (first and second generations) living throughout America. Ethiopian born immigrants constitute the second largest African immigrant group in the U.S., after Nigerians. An interesting fact is that 60% of the Ethiopian population within the United States arrived after 2000. More than half of the Ethiopian immigrants…

Standardized testing has become a huge topic of debate in the United States of America. It’s rise over the past 20 plus years has caused much speculation on whether or not it is the best form of assessment for K-12 students. The rise is largely due to the Goals 2000: Educate America Act that passed in 1994 and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This legislation shifted the focus of assessment onto multiple choice testing of common state curriculum, with the hopes that it would raise the…

On March 12th, President Obama gave a weekly address to the nation concerning his plans to change the educational system in America. During his address, he outlined a few problems with America’s schools, and then said, in broad, general terms his plans to address and fix these problems. However, from a sociological standpoint, his address would not address the root causes of our educational problems in America; he focuses entirely on schools and teachers, when the problems are based on class…

The United States stands fourth among developed nations for education spending in the primary and secondary levels, over $12,000 annually on every student, 5.2% of GDP in total. (Larock 13). Despite this large investment towards educating children, U.S. children are just fourteenth in the world in terms of academic performance (“Which Countries Have the Best Schools?”). In order to improve the subpar educational status, the United States must implement a two-part cost-effective solution to…

in that one side acknowledges that is a very real problem that need to be fixed, while the opposing side either denies that it is real, or believes the current system is okay as it is. Assuming that the overwhelming evidence declaring that the United States has the highest level of economic inequality of all Western nations is true, the main issue the nation should be focused on is how to fix this problem. The clearly uninformed citizens who dismiss the idea of income inequality completely do…

higher educational attainment (McNamee and Miller 2004,…

In the United States during 1990 the rate of teenage pregnancy was at an astonishing 116.9 pregnancies per 1,000 women between the ages of 15-19. After Birth control was widely made available through healthcare providers and insurance companies, the rate of teenage pregnancy dropped. Teen pregnancy dropped to 57.4 per 1,000 women which was a striking 51%. The creation of Birth control was a turning point in American history, because it gave women more control, forced society to look at sex…

importance, each country has own educational system, and they try to produce more well-educated people to the world. America is now recognized that one of the primary countries which have an advanced educational system. Likewise, Japan concentrates on improving the educational system, and they imitate American educational system. Although there are similarities, there are significant differences between the Japanese college educational system and the American college educational system. In…

Especially students from low-income status. Mulhern et al. noted “The rising costs and increasing pressures on public colleges and universities across the nation threaten to lower the overall educational attainment levels and magnify gaps in income inequality and socioeconomic status.” It is critical that federal and state government provide adequate funding for higher education to keep tuition and costs down. In 2013, the U. S. Department of Education Scorecard reported that the 80 percent of…

Native American students are extremely underrepresented in postsecondary educational systems nationwide. There are many personality traits, psychological and social factors influencing this divide. This paper identifies various psycho-social influences in attempts to help Native students better prepare as well as strengthen key traits in order to successfully complete postsecondary education. The academic difficulties and non-persistence of Native Americans in college have been well documented…