Intro: Education!

Education is a very pertinent aspect of life that is needed in society to pursue the things in life that we desire to do. I'll be using this cite to discuss some issues and bring light to problems that we as Americans let walk unanswered in darkness.
In todays society to attain a suitable career in the work field, it is almost impossible to do so with the absence of a college degree, especially in America. But not all students are able to commit to college.

Many college-worth students are either accepted or denied access to college enrollment for particular reasons pertaining to individual, societal, and parental evidence. Individual factors that are studied range from race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, family, community, and other categorizes. “At the individual level, researchers study race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, family, community, student status, peers and geography. Organizational factors are those that cause schools to produce environments supporting college attendance. Studies in this category examine high school policies and procedures, curricula, the influence of high school counselors and teachers, and availability and quality of outreach programs. Finally, field level studies explore the sociopolitical climate and include such items as federal and state level policies around financial aid, affirmative action, and accountability. These studies also look at how the media, professional organizations and public and private institutions influence one another and in turn, student behavior(Vance)." Socioeconomic status covers the income and education that a student’s parent receives, which sociologically affects the student credibility to attend the college of their choosing or college at all. A parent who has been to college probably has a good providing job which better assists a child in enrolling in college besides a family whose education and pay grade isn’t as high. A parent also affects the ability to be influenced with wanting to learn, discussing college options, or even career goals. The more discreet and specific a student’s ambitions, priorities, and career goals are the more productive he will be when entering into his field of work. Where as a student who goes to college for the experience or to be social have a hard time coping with the academic aspect of the college life. There are even circumstances where a senior at high school who probably knows little or no information at all on college life, is influenced majorly by his or her high school counselor either to further education at either a 4-year college or a junior college depending on his or her grades and work ethic as well as the work ethic the student would need to succeed at a prestigious level of academic standards. In saying this, American education still is blown out of the water when compared to the abroad educational institutions such as Japan. In a way, I understand that guiding these students based on prior grade averages is a good assumption as to how he would cope in a university, private, or community college, however I feel that every student should at least be directed in the path they would like to go down or further encouraging them to improve their standards because everyone wants to get a job and I’m sure by now as our economy is being tossed into a recycling bin, “the new normal,” each student is aware that to attain a American job or position, a degree must be attained. So that should be the foundation and we grow from their encouraging and rather building programs that change and better the mind-set of thinking of an individual to make them more productive in college, and while killing two birds with one stone, creating more job opportunities which is a chief priority. Education is the sole cheif priority in this society and i want to go further into details and discover why the American education system is taken so lightly when it is drastically needed to be hired at that 6-figure job that allows a person to provide for themselves without struggling. Without college, how will you survive in America? McDonald’s?


Vance, Noelle. "Inequality & Access to Higher Education." Inequality & Access to Higher Education -- Research Starters
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