Education Inequality (PDF)

Education inequality Hello, everyone. We are from Taylor\'s University. Currently undertaking the **education**, school in **society** module. Through this video we would like to bring awareness towards how **socioeconomic status** is impacting the **inequality** of education. **Socioeconomic statu...

Education inequality Hello, everyone. We are from Taylor\'s University. Currently undertaking the **education**, school in **society** module. Through this video we would like to bring awareness towards how **socioeconomic status** is impacting the **inequality** of education. **Socioeconomic status or SES** for short is defined as a measure of economic and social measure of a person\'s **economic and social position** in relation to others. This is increasingly relevant in the educational Society today, **as a low SES has been linked to poorer educational achievement.** Education inequality can be linked to students **family background**. Many believe that private education is the root cause of education inequality. For example, the cost of public school in Malaysia is 73 000 from preschool to year 12. While the cost of private school is one million dollars. Referring to Malaysia students who **dropped out of secondary school** before SPM mostly came from low-income groups. In 2014, 42.12 percent dropped out of school at form one , due to **poverty**, **learning difficulties** and **underage marriage**. Research also shows that children of low SES households develop academic skills slower than those from high SES status. As related to poor **cognitive development**, language, memory, **social emotional processing** and consequently poor **income** and health in adulthood. Furthermore the Covid 19 pandemic has also caused education inequality by widening the **education gap** between advanced economies and middle and low-income nations unable to provide online learning. Low income parents are unable to support their child's learning from home, due to the need of Technology like laptops or the internet. In addition, even the parents were able to provide the technology, low SES kids are more likely to have unreliable internet access. The school systems in **low SES communities** are often under resource negatively affecting students academic progress. Moreover, the current covid crisis may result in a greater impact on the social economic status of education. As budgets fall more quickly as public revenues decline sharply. The governments will find it difficult to fund for education as the spending has to be prioritised more on **health**. Therefore low income households may be at a **disadvantage** since they are unable to spend on private schools. However many educational systems across the globe are finding methods to respond to the **challenges** of online learning for lower SES children. In the United States, the NYC Department of Education, have additional temporary iPads for students alone during the pandemic who do not have access to laptops. They also work with internet service providers such as Verizon to provide free cellular service in rural areas in California. This showcases, how despite Covid having a detrimental impact on SES students. There are steps employed to **bridge the gap between lower and higher SES students,** even during the pandemic. To conclude although SES had already been a pre-existing problem in education this will gradually improve in with time. Unfortunately Covid has exacerbated it. However, there are still methods in place to help bridge the gap even during the pandemic. The **issue** is still very much present today despite not being talked about often. And we should not overlook this inequality in education, and continue to bridge the gap between higher and low income students.