Poverty and Education

Poverty and Education

Section 1

The target population selected by the author is the children living in poverty and without education. According to the author, poverty is a life concept. In the political discourse, mediated by the mass media, child poverty mainly dealt with on the monetary level. The United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) warns that conditions of poverty, malnutrition and social exclusion faced by millions of children and adolescents living in urban areas in the world raise serious educational disadvantages. Estimated that at least 16.4 million children under five do not reach their cognitive development potential, while 67 million school age children do not attend primary education to the classroom. Of these, 53 percent are girls.

In its annual report on the State of World's Children 2012: Girls and boys in an urban world, which this time is devoted to the lives of the under 19 cities in the world, notes that children who grow poverty amid no access to education, especially in areas where there is little or no public schools, so it is not uncommon for families to have to decide between paying for their children to attend private schools overcrowded and poor quality, or removed altogether (Raffo, 2010). The lack of a teacher paying attention to the students due to the overcrowded classes will ultimately result in increasing the operations cost as all the resources will in short be wasted resulting in producing an unproductive child.

Quality of Education

As for schooling in poor urban areas indicates that the main factors that threaten the quality of education is the overcrowded classrooms and lack of appropriate facilities, including, access to health in good condition. Note that it is not enough to ensure access and permanence in the educational system, considered together with the increased enrollment, as the main factors that determine the quality of education, since many of the underprivileged youth who manage to complete their training not satisfying jobs are rewarded with their efforts to educate. Too many young people in the world, warns UNICEF, are idle, without study or work. The international organization highlights that almost half (43 percent) of children living on the planet-thousand estimated 200 million children under 19 years living in urban areas, so it is expected that by 2050, seven in 10 people will be an urban resident.

Each year is increased by 60 million the number of urban dwellers worldwide, although most of the population is in low and middle income countries, which are rapidly changing composition of rural to urban. Thus, warns UNICEF, the challenges faced by children and adolescents to access a quality life, including their right to health and education, is increasingly complex (Maile, 2008).

The author added that although urban children are more likely than their peers inhabiting rural and remote areas, socioeconomic inequalities that persist in the cities also severely undermine the right of children to education. Stresses that despite efforts to achieve universal access to primary education in many countries, even where access to this level of ...