The Achievement Gap Analysis

This scholarly article clearly illustrates on the achievement gap experienced since the beginning of the 20th century to present time. Therefore, it is pertinent to understand the family dynamics and the poverty concentration which are highlighted. As noted by William Julius Wilson, “the individual framework does not capture the impact of relational, organizational and collective processes that embody the social structure of inequality.” This phrase is particularly true because most model minority become desensitize to their race issues and as a whole, we as a community do suffer. Though, the need to educate the black communities to be willing to pursue a path of success yet infrastructure has to be provided collectively and as a nation working
With this balanced core in a family, the achievement gap can be merged thus playing a key role in the stability of the society as a whole. As addressed by President Obama in his 2008 Father’s Day speech, getting father’s back into the business of nurturing children is highly applaudable. Like a symbolic interactionism, family itself is a symbol, not an objective, concrete reality. As interactionist, I am of the opinion that fathers and mothers should work together despite being a family of procreation to construct a family for the emotional well-being, social skills, and intellectual growth of the children which will greatly bring about a rise in the achievement gap hence pushing the effects of deprivation and isolation out of the Black communities. In conclusion, access to education should be accessible regardless of class or gender. Pertaining to family dynamics, I strongly believe in the symbolic interactionism theory pertaining to education. Labeling a child can greatly impact such child negatively or positively as in the case of Jeremy Iverson. (Iverson