The Importance Of Education In Connecticut

When I was thinking about an issue in Connecticut that I wanted to talk about, nothing popped into my head immediately. So, as always I turned to Google and spent a couple hours really searching for something I was passionate about. After a lot of favoriting, backspacing, and searching. I deemed this moment, one of the few times Google ever let me down. So I sat and thought about what was affecting me currently. That's when I realized that I was very passionate about my education. In fact, I was so passionate that I was spending my summer trying to advance myself in it. That's when it hit me, how important was education to Connecticut?

So I forgave Google and started my search again, this time with a clear goal in mind. That's when I came across a frightening fact, Connecticut has one of the largest achievement gaps in the country. The achievement gap compares middle and high class students test scores, dropout rates, graduation percentages, etc. to minorities and low income students statistics, and calculates the difference between the two. In Connecticut, minorities were almost three grades below the higher income students. However, this isn't the worst of it, according to data from the NAEP, (which is an exam given to students in grades, 4, 8 and 12 to assess math, reading, science, social studies, and the arts) Connecticut scored dead last in 14 out of 22 measures. With these kind of stats, something has to be done to be able to stop this trend.
It isn't just the teachers or the principals or the parents. It's our fault, as students to not strive for our education. We can affect the way the achievement gap plays into our life, we can use it in our favor, to prove that we are just as capable as anyone