Black and White Achievement Gap

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Theoretical Framework3

Family and Demographic Changes4

Narrowing the achievement gap4

Pertaining Issues5

Solutions of the issues5

Measurement of Achievement Gaps6

Conclusion6

Black and White Achievement Gap

Introduction

Discrimination is the damaging factor that is usually found in most of the world's nations. In the same context, United States of America also focus on the constant Black and White gap in the achievement of school children. It comes into a meeting point when every year National Assessment of Education Progress releases the report cards of nation's students. The main page of the report centers on whether the marks are increasing or decreasing and to what extent the achievement gap is changing by the time. The narrowing of achievement gap is dominant in a sense of change that came from No Child Left behind (NCLB) Act and by federal education efforts. In order to find out the achievement gaps, nation's effort has a deep history behind it. The decision of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation in the year of 1954 was the tenure of great expectations. In the same manner, the passage of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 also accesses its great value. These two Acts concentrates on the inequality of school resources and segregation between Black and White. The Civil Rights Act in the year of 1964 fortified hope for the large scale development in the educational society. Currently, NCLB is meaningful in its necessity to total the average achievement scores of the state education, for presenting the inequality that is required to be addressed.

Discussion

Despite of putting extraordinary efforts to get the better minority achievement in the last decade, the gap among black and white students still stays annoyingly broad. We also come to know that math and reading scores are slowly improving in black students throughout the state. Though the achievement gaps are rigidly remained bare but their degree is changed to some extent. It varies by the passage of instant, most of the times it changes a lot or sometimes it shows minor changes. Since the beginning of assessment in the early 1970's by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the statistics has given the clear picture about the gaps. NAEP is the main source of presenting national achievement data.

Theoretical Framework

The relation between child development and parental wealth is important to focus on its after effects on child education. These income differences are related to the concept of children well being. Income slopes are explained and divided into its three packs. First the researchers concentrate on the material neediness that becomes the cause of poor nutrition induction, deficiency of sufficient medical prevention, insecure environments (Callan, Nolan, & Whelan, 1993). This tradition shows that low income people do experience a level of deprivation which can easily affect on children results (Mayer, 1997). At contrast, white students belong to high earning families and this creates the differences in their respective achievement.

The second framework usually called family stress or family pressure. It has been observed that when the financial crisis strike ...