Impoverish Urban Education: A Case Study

There is substantial proof of the correlation between declining impoverish urban education and the increase in criminality resulting in incarceration or court supervision. In many impoverish urban, areas across the country, more than fifty percent do not complete high school.
A portion of that is due to failing education offered to urban students and not recognizing the students that fall through the cracks and not up to par with classmates. Many students from urban areas suffer from many variables that can affect their education, such as crime, overpopulation of schools, lack of employment and opportunities, family environment, and being behind classmates in English and/or math. Urban schools often face many challenges when attempting to provide a proper education. Some of those
challenges are: funding, social problems such as language barriers caused by having multilingual students, and not having qualified instructors.
Chapman (2010) Statistics show that up to thirty-five percent of African Americans incarcerated between the ages of twenty and thirty-nine have no diploma, and less than a twelfth-grade education due to dropping out of high school. Travis, Redburn, Western, Steve, Bruce, and
Jeremy (2014)
More than seventy percent of males from impoverish urban students who dropped out of high school find themselves unemployed while in their twenties. There is a dramatic decline in employment opportunities for urban students that drop out. The decline in manual labor jobs directly stimulates many from urban areas to become involved in drug related crimes. Nealy
(2008) Employment after incarceration is much more difficult due to the burden of having a criminal record, making incorporation back into society more difficult. There is a nearly twenty percent decline in not only employment opportunities but also the annual income for African

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American who were previously incarcerated.
Studies performed in 2008 found that African
American men previously incarcerated make up nearly fifteen percent of unemployment. Travis,
Redburn, et al. (2014)
There has been a nearly three hundred percent increase in incarceration over the past thirty years. From 2005-2015 the average percent of incarcerated African Americans was twenty-eight percent. The average for the crimes in these years committed by impoverish urban males are: murder at fifty percent, robbery at fifty-six, and drug charges at thirty-three percent.
FBI-UCR (2016) In 2014 there was nearly sixty-two hundred African American males arrested and booked. Glaze and Kaeble (2016) Only about ten percent of inmates have a high school diploma. Many inmates have less than a tenth-grade education. Williamson (1992) These statistics corroborate that the decline of urban education over the past thirty years have had a direct correlation with the increase of incarceration of impoverish urban males.
If the decline of education is not dealt with there will continue to be an increase of
African American inmates from impoverish urban areas of the country. There are programs
that have been tested and studied in Chicago showing that in a randomized control trial intervention from academic and non- academic sources caused improvement of grades and a decrease in students dropping out. Cook, Dodge, Farkas, Freyer, Guryan, Ludwig, Mayer, Pollack, Steinberg
(2014) Many urban school districts offer a variety of options for education. Some offer magnet schools, charter schools, and vouchers that allow the student to attend an out of district.
Chapman (2010) These being offered has helped many districts but there is still a major divide in national testing. This is relevant when the scores from schools across the country are tallied.
NAEP Report Cards. (2016)