Poverty and School Funding

  Richa Patel Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College February 26, 2021 Working title: College completion gap between high and low-income students Topic          The topic that has been chosen for this proposal is to assess the contribution of financial aids on the academic establishment of the students from low-income groups. This is a very significant topic among the educational sector since low-income students lack the affordability towards availing the courses. They can attend part-time courses, which is not a permanent solution, as they drop these courses for their financial conditions. This situation has to be changed at any cost because this gap will determine the rates of unemployment in the country ( Bjorklund-Young: 24). This gap has to be reduced to promote income equality and better employability among youth throughout all communities whether their income is high or low. Proper investigations are needed in terms of a...

  About the Author:   Elizabeth Mann Levesque earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan. Later, as a fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, she studied a wide range of education policy issues, including civics education, employer and community college workforce development partnerships, and federal regulations related to the Every Student Succeeds Act . Elizabeth is currently a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an Instructional Consultant for the Foundational Course Initiative at the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Citations: Levesque, Elizabeth Mann. “Improving Community College Completion Rates by Addressing Structural and Motivational Barriers.” Brookings , Brookings, 22 Oct. 2018, www.brookings.edu/research/community-college-completion-rates-structural-and-motivational-barriers/.  Summary of the Article The article discusses how many commun...

Research Question: In the past few decades college admissions and graduation rates have lessened dramatically among lower-income students. Overall (U.S.) education spending has been cut off quite severely in the last few years. Is the government itself is responsible for generating achievement gaps? This topic is up for debate but why there isn’t a solution to this issue? will low-income students and their families remain in the low-income bracket? Resources : Michael Mitchell, et al. “State Higher Education Funding Cuts Have Pushed Costs to Students, Worsened Inequality.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , 24 Oct. 2019, www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-higher-education-funding-cuts-have-pushed-costs-to-students.  Carmel Martin, Ulrich Boser. “A Quality Approach to School Funding.” Center for American Progress , www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/11/13/460397/quality-approach-school-funding/.  Dan, Is there a relationship between ...

After doing some research, I have decided to continue with the topic that I chose in the initial blog post. The topic that I had initially chosen was about poverty and school funding which affects children’s higher education. It is crucial that ever to close the educational achievement gaps (among upper and lower class) amount to much more than just increased GDP and tax revenues. The current generation of children will be better off when they are adults because they will have higher earnings, higher material standards of living, and an enhanced quality of life. I learned COVID-19 is exacerbating the education gap.  Some of the key terms I used when searching up about my topic were: low-income families, higher-income families, education disparities, poverty, school funding, income achievement gap, low-income students, under-resourced, work-study, enroll, financial problems, grant funding, financial aid, college tuitions, college education, decreased educational success and more......