There was a big number of unemployment among black teenagers, because discrimination was still a significant factor. The unemployment rate for black people who had attended college, was 27.2% and those who had graduated from high school was 23.6%. It was higher than the unemployment rate for white high school dropouts, which was 22.3%. It was obvious that the black students were being discriminated, because the white students that didn’t t even finished high school were getting more jobs opportunities than blacks. With the Affirmative Action program there was a dramatic increase in college attendance among blacks, yet there was still an astounding amount of unemployed blacks.
Seventy five percent of these students are white female. They tend to come from a blue-collar or non-professional background. This means they come from a low income family. People who came from families whose parents that did go to college are typically four times richer then the first year generations. With this being stated, financial aid and financial stressors’ is the number one stress factor facing first year generation students.
FARM students score lower than the overall average in both reading and math in 8th and 4th grade. This is probably due to the fact that families in lower income have a lower vocabulary, less education, and less parental support due to the fact that both parents are probably working as many hours as possible. Research proves that students who are living in poverty prior to entering school their oral language is more limited then those raised in a higher social economic status. African American students are disproportionately represented in the FARMS population in our area, mainly because they are half our population and in turn a high percentage of our FARM students. This could partially explain the low performance of African American students when compared to Caucasians.
But government statistics suggest that a substantial number struggle emotionally. Among Asian American high school students, 29 percent have reported feeling “sad or hopeless” for at least two weeks in a row during the past year, enough to interfere with their daily lives, according to a recent national youth survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That figure is slightly higher than that of teens from all racial groups, 28 percent. With suicidal thoughts, the gap widens. When the CDC asked Asian American students if they had seriously considered suicide during the past year, 19 percent answered yes, compared to 16 percent of all high school students.
Rich agree there is a gender gap when it comes to females applying to colleges and universities. Saying Kenyon until 1969 was a man college. That year more than 55 percent of her applicants are female. Today, two-thirds of post-secondary institutions report they get more female applicants than males. Nationwide 56 percent of women are undergraduates.
Statistics show Heartland has a population of 50 percent white, 25 percent African American and 25 percent that is made up of all other nationalities. The job requirement is a high school diploma, which 75 percent of the 50 percent white population has earned, but only 25 percent of the rest of the 50 percent non-white population has earned one. While there is a very big percent difference in the number of whites who have earned their high school diploma when compared to the other races, this does not justify Heartland’s entire cleaning crew being white. This makes it seem as though there is discrimination by the employers based on race, which goes against Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 disparate impact. This information is important, but is not very helpful in considering whether Gelato is in compliance with the Civil Right Act of 1964, because it does not provide us enough to make a valid violation determination because the total number of applicants for each group is not provided in the
For example, Lee notes that America has the second best percentage of people with degrees worldwide behind Australia, and that, “only 27 percent of Americans have a bachelor’s degree” (Lee 28). However, the journalist notes that only about a quarter of college students who start at a four year university, actually graduate with at least a bachelor’s degree within their first six years. In addition, the author debates that the tuition cost for college is extremely high, when more than half of the students can not finish their college requirements. Furthermore, Lee suggests that there are other resources to succeed in life without a degree. In the article, she shows that her hair colorist makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year; who does not have a college degree.
Analyazation of the 2006 racial and ethnic makeup of students ages 6-21 illustrates Yates’ point. In 2006 Caucasian students represented 61.4% of the ethnic make-up of the school population; their participation in various services-Emotionally Disturbed (ED) 57.4%, Specific Learning Disability (SLD) 54,8% and Mentally Retarded (MR) 58.4% does not surpass their representation in the general population. Although African American students account for 14.91% of the ethnic make-up in 2006, 28.9% of them are labeled as ED, 20.5% as SLD and 20.6% as MR. Hispanic students are also overrepresented in the SLD category: overall ethnic make-up 18.51% and 21.2% labeled as SLD (Samuels, 2007). Experts cite multi-faced reasons for the disproportionate amount of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education. The National Research Council (NRC, 2002) contends disproportion has a biological basis.
Kamilla Mojica Bamishigbin, T.A. Unit III Final Draft Introduction: According to scholar and educational researcher Gary Orfield, “In schools that are 81% to 100% Black and Latino, more than three quarters of the students are also enrolled in schools where more than 70% of the students live in poverty. In fact, half of students in 91% to 100% Black and Latino schools are in schools that also have more than 90% low-income students. (Orfield, 2014)” He continues by stating that “of students attending schools that are overwhelmingly White and Asian (0% to 10% Black and Latino schools), only 4% have 80% or more students living in poverty. Seventy percent of students enrolled in schools with less than 20% Black and Latino enrollment are also
Higher education in America displays characteristics of segregation. Whites and Asians disproportionately enrol at University campuses, while African Americans and Latinos most often attend community colleges. Although this is bad news, the rate of African American dropouts has decreased by 11% in the past 25 years. There have been movements in America such as the “Black Nationalism on Campus” movement at colleges in Pennsylvania that encourages young students to maintain ethnic identity and self respect so that they can propel into the mainstream world of the white middle class. The percentage of all 18- to 24-year-old African Americans enrolled in higher education increased to from 21.2% to 32.6% in 20