Although cultural deprivation plays a huge part in how well working class children achieve compared to middle class children, there are also other factors involved. Both material deprivation and culture capital affect a child’s educational achievements.…
There are a lot of different factors that can affect a child’s educational achievement; their social background has a strong influence on the achievement and success that they may get during their lives. For example a child from a middle class background is on average more likely to attain a higher success than one from a working class background, and the class gap between the achievement levels gets wider and wider the older that the children get.…
A social class background has a very powerful influence on a child’s chances of success in the education system. The children that are from a middle class background will normally perform better than the working class.…
When Korean students are constantly told by everyone to constantly study, it takes a toll on their social lives. Ripley commented on how that Korean high school students spent the majority of their time in school rather than at home because of their schedule. A frustrating idea that I agree is that students in the U.S do not give the expected respect to teachers. In Finland, Ripley highlights that even students that are seen as obnoxious out of class, they still show respect to the teacher and don’t disturb the class at all. I found the ending to be satisfying because I learned how education can have an impact on social lives and how different different countries have varying perspectives on…
There are many ways in which factors in children’s home background which may lead to differences in achievement between ethnic groups. The first way is from cultural deprivation, with the socialisation experience of children, values, expectations and norms transmitted at home. Driver and Ballard 1979 argued that high achievement in some Asian groups might be linked to the presence of close knit extended families. However with some ethnic groups many tend to have low income, which may explain why black pupils tend to underachieve as many children from low income black families lack intellectual stimulation and enriching experiences. Some cultural deprivation theorists argue that many children from low-income black families lack intellectual stimulation and enriching experiences.…
This study is designed to test the hypothesis that environmental enrichment among the impoverished ad underprivileged children can lead to an improvement in their IQ levels. This is why the 20 children who were from the underprivileged sector of the society were picked and subjected to a non residential school that was less crowded than their previous situations. This is a program that was initiated at the age of 3 and special attention was put on development of social and cognitive skills.…
Education – Research tells us that children and young people from poor families are lower down in their levels of education across all stages of the curriculum. A gap of nine months (on average) in learning shows poorer children to be behind that of Children coming from wealthy families when both groups of children are only 3 years of age (the brain is at this age is 80% developed). This gap increases as children remaining in poverty become older when compared to children of the same age that come from more affluent backgrounds. By the age of 11 Children who receive free school meals (sometimes their only meal of the day as children can suffer from malnutrition as a result of poverty) are estimated to be nearly 3 times behind that of children classed as living outside of poverty and alarmingly as the child becomes older the gap in attaining a good level of education increases until they finish secondary school.…
The article explains how poor children usually have a harder time concentrating in class due to extreme stress and a bad home life: “According to author Eric Jensen, “children raised in poverty rarely choose to behave differently, poverty affects learning because they face challenges their affluent counterparts never see. Their brains have adapted to suboptimal conditions in ways that undermine good school performance,” (Leon) If a child’s primary needs are not met at a young age, formation of new brain cells will slow down and the neural circuitry will create emotional dysfunction, making it difficult for children living in poverty to do well in school.…
However, why do children from poverty need to spend more time to reach the same level of knowledge as wealthier children? A study…
Not surprisingly enough Lincoln school has the lowest Vocabulary score of 4.6,Lowest comprehension score of 4.3 in both grade 5 and 6 of all 11 schools. In Appendix C the results for the mean IQ scores of grade 3 is the 2nd to last of those to washington, Same goes for grade 6 in Lincoln school. Coincidental? I think not. Segregation is playing an effect on the children of Lincoln school and or other schools who have been affected by this.…
Why is it that staying home to read a book is not at the top of a child’s priority list? Obviously it is because children would much rather be outside playing a game of baseball with friends than staying in to do school work. Children usually do not find school subjects interesting. In school, students learn the necessities that will generally help them get through life. Children typically are more interested in things they learn outside the classroom such as sports, video games or the Internet. What if these interests were brought into the classroom and taught? Gerald Graff, the author of “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is more than one way to measure intelligence. This essay significantly considers how Graff’s beliefs on “Hidden Intellectualism” can be related to today’s education system. While I somewhat agree with Graff I find it difficult to completely believe that children should be taught only of topics that interest them for the reason that a student should be well rounded and have a general understanding of the other basic academic skills.…
Criticisms for “The Bell Curve” As the book breeches many controversial subjects about race and intelligence, there have been many people who have said that the findings in Herrnstein and Murray’s joint publication are not only filled with bias, but also fail to represent common testing errors that may leave the minority at a disadvantage. In an article entitled “Bias in mental testing since Bias in Mental Testing”, Robert Brown and his colleague Cecil Reynolds refute the use of cognitive assessment tests to show cultural and ethnic differences in intelligence. They make the statement that differences in mean scores of ethnic groups has nothing to do with actual differences in ability but rather “problems in the construction, design, administration,…
When children grow up in low income communities where most adults are less educated, there is lower expectations since not many hold a degree in higher education. This also applies to their academic performance, because these children have no one to turn to when not understanding their school work. As a result, these children are discouraged from possibly pursuing better…
There was a study completed by two school districts in Illinois. These districts, Waubonsie and Neuqua, for five years they collected data from their students taking standardized tests. Waubonsie reported that on average around 30% of students from the minorities met or exceeded standards in math and reading. On the other hand, around 75% of Caucasian and Asian students met or exceeded the same standards. Similarly, students at Neuqua followed the same trends. With this study and many others completed around the country it now seems that there is a deep-rooted correlation between ethnic groups, intelligence, and success within school districts.…
"Research Shows Poverty Creates the Biggest Achievement Gap of All." Cambridge Advanced Learning Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.…