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Causes for a Lack of Quality Education https://youtu.be/scMho9RAeEQ -…
Causes for a Lack of Quality Education https://youtu.be/scMho9RAeEQ
Not Enough Schools
The 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) required states to increase low-income district budgets by $1,200 per pupil per year to reduce class sizes and add to instructional spending. Multiple studies have found that students’ test scores began to rise, along with their future salary rates, as a direct response to these education reforms.
School districts with the highest rates of poverty receive less funding per student than those with the lowest rates of poverty.
In 2007 during an 18-month-long recession, student math and English language arts (ELA) achievement was dramatically reduced. Both state and local revenues saw a 5 percent decrease in revenue, leading to school funding cuts and a decrease in student outcomes.
Students in schools with higher budgets showed significant gains in both reading and mathematics. This was most apparent in low-income students, who previously had not had access to more comprehensive courses, such as advanced math and science.
The inequitable amount of spending per school directly leads to the disparity in academic achievement
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Predjudice
86 percent of children attending districts with majority Black student populations are in districts that have funding gaps.
In 2014, the high school graduation rate for white students was 87 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. For black students, the rate was 73 percent.
Non-black teachers have significantly lower educational expectations for black students than black teachers do when evaluating the same students..
Black students are disproportionately concentrated in poorly funded, low-performing districts.
Research shows that compared with white students, black students are more likely to be suspended or expelled, less likely to be placed in gifted programs and subject to lower expectations from their teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education's 2013–14 data reveal that black children represent 19 percent of preschool enrollment, but 47 percent of out-of-school preschool suspensions. White kids, meanwhile, represent 41 percent of preschool enrollment but just 28 percent of suspensions.
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Inadequate Conditions
Students get sick, distracted or miss entire days of education when conditions turn abysmal. Parents sacrifice income to provide child care when classes suddenly get canceled.
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office estimates that 36,000 schools nationwide need to update or replace heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
The lack of air conditioning doesn’t just stymie students’ learning. It also hurts parents who can’t afford to leave work to take care of their children in the middle of the day.
While school infrastructure problems are a perennial challenge, national data and dismal stories from teachers suggest the crises are reaching an apex. Atrocious school conditions have even prompted some teachers this school year to go on strike.
American Society of Civil Engineers gives the condition of America’s 100,000 public school buildings an overall grade of D+
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Lack of Money
On average, aggregate measures of per-pupil spending are positively associated with improved or higher student outcomes.
On balance, in direct tests of the relationship between financial resources and student outcomes, money matters.
When schools have more money, they have greater opportunity to spend productively. When they don’t, they can’t.
School districts with the highest rates of poverty receive about $1,000 less per student in state and local funding than those with the lowest rates of poverty
Baltimore had 75 public schools without air conditioning, Washington said. Installing AC in all those schools would cost $250 million – about five times the district’s entire annual infrastructure budget.
The economic position of some countries is such that even with all the help they receive, they do not have enough funds to build schools to provide the necessary education to their children.
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Why We Need Education
One of the benefits of education is that the educational system teaches us how to obtain and develop critical and logical thinking and make independent decisions.
The more people have access to the knowledge and skills provided by authentic education, the greater the chances of overall progress.
People with higher education and varied experience are more likely to get high-paying, expert jobs.
Education helps countries grow economically since it is about getting knowledge and being able to apply it wisely to our lives and, at the same time, improving other people’s lives.
Education shows us the importance of hard work and, at the same time, helps us grow and develop. Thus, we are able to shape a better society to live in by knowing and respecting rights, laws, and regulations.
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