How Education Is Affected By People s Socioeconomic...

The Earth was once focused on war but now society has shifted our attention to humane equivalence and malady’s bombardment. Three of these issues are Ebola, how education is affected by people’s socioeconomic status, and gender inequality. Thousands have died and many are in danger from the effects of Ebola. In 2013, the pestilent virus began in Guinea where it then meandered into Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. The African countries are now facing challenges to fight and prevent the malaise. The alarming death rate is forcing the region into a state of crisis. The affected countries are striving for a cure, however, the issue remains incorrigible. â€Å"In addition, as a number of these countries are quite poor, aid and health†¦show more content†¦The achievement gap between rich and poor is extending. In the 1970’s, African Americans had nowhere near the amount of education opportunities as whites did. Thanks to desegregation, by 2012, t here was a 50% decrease compared to 35 years ago. Why stop at 50% through? American society is dragged down by racial disputes, but race is no longer the main issue of education. Education is a necessity in society due to its application to one s occupation. A surgeon must study human anatomy like a bus driver needs to be educated on driving in order to drive students to the schools. The choice of someone s study and their level of education impacts the jobs they receive. A graduate in the field of psychology should result in a job as a psychologist. â€Å"And yet American higher education is increasingly the preserve of the elite† (Porter, 2015). Children of college graduates are twice as likely to attend college than a high school graduate, and seven times more likely than a high school drop-out’s child. The origination of the problem is not, however, in the academics of college and high school. According to â€Å"Too Many Children Left Behind† by Russell Sag e, the day kindergarten begins, children from families of low socioeconomic status are generally a year behind the privileged individuals in subjects such as reading and writing. Even the children of the lower class who are extremely intellectual eventually fall