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Educational Inequalities
Today, educational inequalities are experienced in most campuses, and it is getting more vicious day by day. This is because one side does not want to fight, but the other tends to act very bellicose. Research has shown that this problem pits different groups of people starting from the faculty, staff, administrators and the students. In the United States, education takes the lead toward the realization of pluralistic democracy; this means the government has to ensure that there is total and equal accessibility to educational opportunities for all Americans, at all level and all fields. In summary this paper will analyze the articles provided by identifying the forms of educational inequities and inequality faced by students from minority backgrounds.
According to Michelle & Jessica (2004), in their article of Circuits and consequences of dispossession: the Racialized realignment of the public sphere for U.S. youth, the city managed to deploy large numbers of police personnel by adopting aggressive policing tactics in schools as a way of creating a safe educational environment both for students and teachers. However, studies shows that in some parts of the country, these practices happen to be dysfunctional and frequently expensive. The California school is one of the growing public schools, which is located in communities...
The students in this school have come to realize that the blades of class, race and ethnicity cut the cloth of the public resources determining who receives and who is denied a rich public education.
According to Michelle and Jessica in their article, they report that in the state of California the percentage of under credentialed teachers is directly related to the percentage students of color and students eligible for free or reduced price meals. Conversely, the teacher turnover rates are also reported to be as high as 40%. Therefore, this can be an evidence to show that there is educational inequities and inequality faced by the minority groups. Indeed, the origin of the inequality in the education circles is pointed out to be the frameworks that are persistently used in the academic discussions that constructed race, racism and race relations in terms that put them as black and white at different and often loggerheads ends hence trivializing race, as indicated by Takagi D.Y. (n.d:pp230). In addition, in this article, many students spoke of the "lacks" which their education has instilled in them. According to Rogers, he argues that if kids from the wealthy schools come to his school, he feels that he will be embarrassed because he will not be able to talk freely since those kids would be…
References
Liesemeyer J, (2004). Greasy Grinds and Quasi-Robots: Rhetoric of Exclusions against Jewish and Asian-American Stuidents in America Universities.
Michelle F, & Jessica R, (2004). Circuits and Consequences of Dispossession: The Racialized Realignment of the Public Sphere for U.S. Youth
Takagi D.Y. (n.d). Admissions and Race in Higher Education.
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