African American Education Research Paper

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Money. Today just about everything in the world is based around money. Your house, the clothes you wear, the cars you drive. Money, money, money. Well how do you get money? You get a job. And how do you get a job? You get a degree. And how do you get a degree? You get a good education. In the Us, between 1985 and 2013 the total public and private school enrollment rate for 5-6 years old was about 95%. The enrollment rate for 7-13 year olds was about 99% and the enrollment rate for 14-17 year olds was about 95%. In Chad, Africa less than half of the school age children are enrolled and only one in three children manage to complete their primary a schooling. Like any other third-world country, Africa’s education system has many barriers, but …show more content…

There are about 3,544 schools without electricity, 2.402 schools without water supply, 913 without ablution facilities, and 22,938 without a library. Think about your school, now try to imagine it without electricity, and water, and a toilet, and a library. Sounds fun, right? We, as Americans, don’t realize how lucky we are to have the nice school that we and our peers attend. In the US, there are about 21 students and one teacher in each classroom. In Africa, there is an average of 64 students to one teacher and in urban areas there are more than a hundred students to a single classroom. With these large class sizes the students don’t receive the one-on-one learning they deserve. If the students don’t understand what they are being taught, they don’t have the opportunity to ask questions because there are so many other students with different questions. The phrase “there is no crisis” has become almost a reflex of political leaders everywhere, particularly in South Africa when asked about the education infrastructures because admitting a crisis exists would be owning p to a personal failure, which would mean paying some kids of personal price for that failure. With the political leaders not wanting to pay the price for the failure they are putting all the children of Africa in very bad health conditions and are not letting the children get the education and care that they deserve. I personally believe that they need to step up and admit that they were wrong and help fix the education problems in

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