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Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Educational Inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including but not limited to school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, physical facilities and technologies, to socially excluded communities. These communities tend to be historically disadvantaged and oppressed.
The social aspects of poverty may include lack of access to information, education, health care, social capital or political power. [53] [54] Relational poverty is the idea that societal poverty exists if there is a lack of human relationships. Relational poverty can be the result of a lost contact number, lack of phone ownership, isolation, or ...
On a surface level, poor community buy-in, limited outreach within a community, improper management, lack of specialized education and lack of funding are just a handful of points that can be ...
Universal access to education[1] is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities. [2] The term is used both in college admission for the middle and lower classes, and in assistive technology [3] for the disabled ...
High school dropouts in the United States. The United States Department of Education 's measurement of the status dropout rate is the percentage of 16 to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. [1] This rate is different from the event dropout rate and related measures of the status completion ...
Graph (based on data from the World Bank) showing the proportion of the world's population (blue) and the absolute numbers of people (red) living on <1, <1.25, and <2 US dollars a day (2005 equivalent values) between 1981 and 2008. Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian ...
Some of the major causes of poverty, with historical perspective, were noted as follows: the inability of poor households to invest in property ownership. limited/poor education leading to fewer opportunities. limited access to credit, in some cases—creating more poverty via inherited poverty.