What is America Getting from Its Investmentsin Education?
What is America getting from it investment in education? Good question? But, no real answer. This article http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/ednotes104.cfm discusses the notion that money is not the solution to academic achievement, it is family structure that determines success. The author suggest that it does not matter how much money a state or government spend on education, but, the child’s family structure. So if the family is not solid than that child will more than likely drop out of school.
I have mixed feeling about this article. i truly believe that money and family is need for children to succeed in school, but i think more is needed. The stats this writer used is a little bias to conclude that family structure is what is needed. I noticed that all the stats that were posted was that of inner cities that were mostly African American. I think that the writer should have thought about other factors besides family structure or possibly us stats from suburban cities as well. There are so many more factors that can contribute to the failure of students in inner cities that family structure can only help so much towards the success of a student. I do think that having a good family foundation is a plus but, it does not solve every issue, I think it is a start. I really can not say what could solve the dropout rate of students, but family structure is just a piece of the massive jig saw puzzle.
Money is a huge factor when it come to schooling. Money affects so much in schooling that it can not be ignored. Money is needed for the upkeep of schools, its needed for books and supplies,its needed to fund programs in schools and so much more. In this article she mention Detroit and how much money each student receives there and Detroit’s graduation rate but she did not mention the other surrounding cities gets roughly $7,000 more. nor did she incIude the finance of othe surrounding cities. I think the writer was saying that families in the inner city can not produce children that are academically successful. So if these surburbs outside of Detroit and other urban cities are have a better family structure, than why do they need so much money? In all I think that is has more to do than money and family.
