Eboni Springfield EDU 213 Introduction to Education

BUZZ in EDU #1 09/19/17

Education by the Numbers

Brown vs Board of education is a lesson taught in all schools, it is known as the turning

point in the education system. The Supreme Courts ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was

intended to make education equally accessible to all Americans. 60 years later author Alice Yin

uses statistics to show just how drastic the inequalities in America's education system have

become. In 1988 courts no longer required schools to desegregate. After a peak of diversity in

white southern schools hit and the regulations were lifted segregation began to take hold again.

Almost 90% of black students in Washington, D.C., attend segregated (less than 10% white)

schools(Yin). Not only in D.C has this happened. In 2011-2012, three states had more than

50% of their Latino students in segregated schools: New York, California and Texas(Yin).

Schools with a high population of black and Latino students tend to not have the resources that

are necessary to give a student a valuable education. Minority school districts receive 15% less

per students than the surrounding white school districts and they are more likely to employ

inexperienced teachers in 33 different states.

With everything that is going on in the 21st century I think it is the most important time to

make sure all students are getting the education they deserve. If we could insure that everyone is

getting the valued education they deserve free from any resource restrictions, segregations or low

achievement standards we could live up to so much more potential as a country. I feel diversity is

one of the most important factors in schools today. Personally I love to experience things from

people with different cultural beliefs or from different ethnic backgrounds. Over all, black

students in New York City have a 68.1% on-time graduation rate. When striving for a great

education one of the most important things is having a teacher that has experience with working
with diversity and all different type of students. Recently from a project I did on segregation in

school I found that segregated schools are a disruption of opportunities in social relationships. If

students don't have that time when they are young to work with different cultural backgrounds

and races when they grow up and step into the real world they will have no idea how to interact

or socialize with all the different people.

As a education student I hope to eventually teach in a classroom that is fully diverse. Not

only do I wish that for my class room but for the education system as a whole.The importance of

good education for all students is greater than ever now. I hope to be apart of an education

system that is 100 percent equal to all students. That not one specific school is receiving more

resources than another based on the majority race that attends. That there will not be schools that

have less than 10 percent of minority students which qualifies them as segregated. Race should

not be a factor that affects a student's ability to learn or the education that they receive.

Source: Yin, Alice. Education by the Numbers. The New York Times, The New York Times, 8 Sept.
2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/magazine/education-by-the-
numbers.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=educ
ationion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront.