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Limitations of Global Quality Education - Coggle Diagram
Limitations of Global Quality Education
Cultural Bias
Gender bias, girls are less likely to be educated next to their male peers because of several reasons. Some have to do with their societal norms: they place men at the center of the household and the main providers for the families. If a family living in poverty has to choose between sending their son or daughter it is likely they will choose to educate their son.
15 million girls will go without an education versus 10 million boys. (Understanding how poverty is the main barrier to education)
60 million girls are assaulted on their way to school or at school each year. (Girls’ education)
Bathrooms can be an issue especially for girls. Once they begin their mensuration finding safe places to restroom without proper facilities can lead to girls leaving school. (PhineasJFR)
Disability bias is also a problem in many parts of the world. Schools are not equipped with educators who are trained in special areas such as special education and students who have disabilities are not prioritized as necessary parts of the schools.
(Main barriers)
Racial bias, also hinders our society as a whole to decrease the wage gap among students. African American students within the US are less likely to be given opportunities for advanced placement classes that help prepare for college. (2020)
Untrained Educators/Teacher Shortage
Why are there not enough educators, this problem effects school systems all over the world. Recently, teacher training programs have seen a decline in new enrollment. (Report • By Emma García and Elaine Weiss • March 26)
Schools hire untrained teachers in countries where teaching standards are not mandated. These teachers have not been given proper training in order to teach large class sizes and have limited resources to use.(PhineasJFR)
Low retention rate, teachers are leaving the profession on average 8 percent each year. (Loewus, 2022)
https://youtu.be/sW0XYZg-nNY
Following the recession from 2007-2009 school districts across the US had to cut spending. This made class sizes larger and the requirements for state and federal testing stayed the same. Teachers faced heavy burdens of teaching large classes with the expectations that the test scores would remain the same. (Report • By Emma García and Elaine Weiss • March 26)
Teachers are living below the average cost of living around the world. (Akhtar, 2019)
Unsafe Environments
Safety is a key concern to most parents when their children go to school, however for some families it goes beyond someone picking on your child in the school yard. In war torn countries, going to school can mean not your child not returning home. (Girls’ education)
High Crime rates around schools can make attending difficult. One-third of the student population around the world live in conflict affected countries.(2013)
School violence, threats in schools have led some students to not feel safe in classrooms, as much as 5% have felt this way in the United States alone. (The NCES Fast Facts Tool)
In school violence , increases the school dropout rate. (PhineasJFR)
In areas of conflict, humanitarian aid has not been allocated for education, less than 3% of donations go toward education. Less than half of the world’s refugees have been enrolled in school.
(PhineasJFR)
Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic has placed many hardships on our world. Schools have been hit hard as well. Students who once had a safe place to go, now were being turned away as schools closed globally. Teachers were facing many new challenges as the struggle between “going to school” and “not going” were talked about in the media. (Loewus, 2022)
Teachers had to learn how to teach virtually and quickly learn how to make this effective.
Low income schools couldn’t make a virtual option. Either lack of computers and internet access was not wide spread enough.
Low income students have now are farther gap than before the pandemic. This furthering them from post secondary education. Majority black schools on average are 6 months behind where they are supposed to be following pandemic closers. (Dorn et al., 2021)
https://youtu.be/WP6U9vqFFYM
Mental health has been strained as a result of the pandemic and that goes for students as well. In a recent poll, 35% of parents asked in the US are concerned about their child’s mental health following the pandemic.(Dorn et al., 2021)
Financial Barriers
Countries vary in the ways they pay for their schools. Some are private institutions and some are federally funded institutions.
Transportation is a barrier for some children. Either they have to walk to school and the location is too far or the area is too dangerous for them to leave home to travel. 246 million students experience violence around school each year. (Girls’ education)
Materials, schools in impoverished areas need school supplies. In under developed countries foreign aid is needed for schools to support their students. It cost approx. $1.25 per day for a student to be funded for 13 years. (PhineasJFR)
Schools in parts of the world are unable to adequately fund their building. Buildings are overcrowded and some lack proper restrooms. (PhineasJFR)
