Disparities In Education

Jamelle Bouie’s article titled, Still Separate and Unequal-Why American schools are becoming segregated once again, touches on the history of desegregation in American schools but focuses how statistically minority students are more likely to attend majority- minority schools than in previous generations. This article points out that poverty and segregation play a direct role in the school system. While drawing connections between school segregation, concentrated poverty, entrenched segregation, and housing discrimination it also presents the authors not so optimistic view on future reforms to segregated schools, districts, and educational equality as he states in regard to education equality, “To do this, however, requires a commitment to

Many people do not know about the inequalities that African Americans go through in the public education system or choose to ignore it. Such as receiving unequal education as the white kids in rich areas, having old textbooks ten to twenty year old or sometimes suffer from discrimination in public schools they attend. The fact is that public schools that African Americans attend aren’t slightly unequal they enormously unequal from public schools funding to segregation resurfacing in schools. While at least everyone (below 18 or 19) in U.S has a right to get an equal public education. Low test scores and graduation rates show that African American students are being left behind in education, public schools African Americans attend are being

The video “Tale of Two Schools: Race and Education on Long Island” presents David and Owen, two African-American students with similar backgrounds and grades who attend two different high schools in separate districts that have drastically different access to resources, community support, income, etc. Wyandanch Memorial High School is located in a poor district, while South Side High School is located in Rockville Center which is a more affluent and diverse district. The effects of the districts having varying levels of access to quality resources and diversity is exemplified throughout the video with regards to the way the students interact with each other, their grades, and their careers after high school. The lack of resources of Wyandanch

African Americans face a struggle with racism which has been present in our country before the Civil War began in 1861. America still faces racism today however, around the 1920’s the daily life of an African American slowly began to improve. Thus, this time period was known by many, as the “Negro Fad” (O’Neill). The quality of life and freedom of African Americans that lived in the United States was constantly evolving and never completely considered ‘equal’. From being enslaved, to fighting for their freedom, African Americans were greatly changing the status quo and beginning to make their mark in the United States.

Prior to the Reconstruction Era, the Union and the Confederate states had just engaged in a war concerning slavery and the unity of the United States, which is also known as the Civil War. The damage from the war was economically, socially and politically devastating to the United States of America as a whole. The newly liberated African Americans were harassed, tormented and even killed in the communities they had developed after the Civil War. Literacy tests were implemented as a way to prevented the miseducated African American male from suffrage. Lastly, early Jim Crow laws originated during this time period.

Amidst the protests about student deaths like Michael Brown, a light shines on segregated school districts in cities, and it is evident from student successes that a proper education is key to success. The power of a proper education is astounding, and yet the political machines rarely aid education reform. Themes in The Wire, The Other Wes Moore and “School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson” all showcase the importance of education in every child’s life. Both Wes Moore and Mah’Ria’s showcase the importance a proper education in destroying racial oppression.

African-Americans have been treated unfairly throughout the years and it has still not ceased. In the articles "Blacker Than Thou," "White Rage," and "The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning," there are examples of this unjust treatment. For instance, in "The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning," the author demonstrates that black people are stereotyped to be lawbreakers, and some police have used lethal weapons against them unnecessarily, due to their race. Also, in "White Rage," the author describes occasions from the past, such as Brown v. Board of Education, a court case that ended racial isolation of schools, to demonstrate that there was extreme prejudice before these occasions. In "Blacker Than Thou," it indicates how some

Sixty years after the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education, African Americans in the U.S. educational arena are still confined to a lesser existence says Bailey, Ray and Tennille’s article on racism. It reminds people of what they have been through with the hopes that slavery will never happen again. Some whites think they are superior to blacks and keeping the n-word around empowers them with strength and hope that things will go back to the way they were. “Rationalizers of black racism ignore the fact that identical actions inflicted by whites would be universally decried as intolerable,” says Ma, Ying. "

One piece of evidence shows that Black people, still, continued to withstand the catastrophic effects of Racism, particularly in the South. According to, History, it states “The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against Black people—they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South. By the mid-20th century, Black Americans, along with many other Americans, mobilized and began an unprecedented fight for equality that spanned two decades.” Therefore, racism is another great example that was used back in the day against people of different races, especially to the black

Since the beginning 1600’s black minorities have been pushed around, hurt, and used for others benefit. Picking cotton for the white man as a profit that doesn't benefit them in anyway for years then fighting a war to protect a country that doesn't respect them as a person. They have been discriminated against because of the color of their skin and have been viewed as people that will never be of higher status no matter what happens. This becoming more of a huge problem in the late forties and early fifties during The Civil Rights Movement. Especially when it came for African Americans to get decent education but causes problem for the racist schools in the south and parents that did not want their kids around African Americans.

Only 75 percent of blacks have received post-high school education, compared to 85 percent of whites. Not surprisingly, blacks on average also make less money than whites” (Philip M. Deutsch). It’s unjust that people of color are treated as inferior to white people, and it is that kind of social issue that interferes with the liberties of all Americans of

However, with diversity comes inequalities that people of color face throughout their lives. A particular issue in the United States, specifically in education, is unequal opportunities and treatment in regard to race. Research shows that students from single-parent black families had a high chance of dropping out and participating in illicit behavior (Hallinan 54). While the issue of race is a complicated issue to breach for

The decision behind Brown versus Board of Education is bigger than a “won case “but a case that helped Americans realize interaction, companionship, and learning in a school setting among different races is detrimental and effective. The theory behind the concept was for Americans to change bias thought processes of race and notice success and academic goals is not associated with skin color. For generations to come, it is our responsibility now to reverse racial desegregation not only in schools but everywhere. Brown versus Board of Education was the stepping stone for many to take action. We must continue to

In 1960, black men were five times as likely as white men to being local, state or federal prison. Fifty years later, black men are six times as likely as white men to be in local state or federal prison. Fifty years later, black men are six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated and hispanic men three times as likely. The schools of black children have been steadily resegregating and have weaker graduation rates, less qualified teachers and weaker educational offerings.

Around fifty years ago, civil rights activist Martin Luther King dreamed about a United States that is free of racism, where all people regardless of the color of their skin would live peacefully and equally. Fifty years later, this dream of King, who died for this very cause, could be said to have been realized, albeit not thoroughly. Although it cannot be argued that the minority groups in the US have become more accepted into the society and are receiving the same rights as the White Americans for being citizens of the US, it also cannot be denied that there are still instances of racism that happen in the modern American society. The only difference, and could be a great development, is that these instances of racism are found more in the