20 Education Topics for Essays

Education is one of the broadest subject matters a student will be lucky enough to write an essay on due to the wide range of topics you can choose from as well as the large body of work or research materials available for your reference purposes. And to simplify your task even more, this article will serve as a user guide on choosing a topic as well as provide 20 sample topics you can choose from and to round it all up, one of the provided topics will also be expatiated and drafted in such a way that each section of the expanded topic will provide you with a guide on how to go about drafting yours.

First and foremost, before delving into the article, it is important to introduce what the topic is about and why it is important we write about issues on the subject matter. So, education—either formal or informal — is the acquisition of knowledge, beliefs, values and habits. Obviously, there are numerous ways to acquire these knowledge values etc. but were problems may arise is the process of acquiring these knowledge. And this is how most of the topics on this list come about, they either include, sort the issues or discussing them.

1. Making a Case for Educational Disparities and Racial Inequalities in the United States
2. Comparing and Contrasting the Education Policies between Public Schools in America’s Wealthy and Poorer Districts
3. The State of U.S Education: Still Separate and Unequal
4. Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
5. How Does your Social Class Affect the Quality of your Education
6. The Connection between Education and Wealth
7. Economic Inequality: The Growing Wealth Gap between Rich and Poor Students
8. Girl’s Education and Gender Inequality
9. Education and Gender Equality: The United States Perspective
10. Discussing Employment and Unemployment Rate using Educational Attainment as a Yardstick
11. Education as the Perfect Instrument for Social Change
12. The Impact of Culture on Education
13. Promoting and Protecting the Right to Education of Students from Minority Groups
14. The Interplay between Politics and Education in the United States
15. The Impact of Bad Policies on Education
16. The Importance of Quality Education in Our Lives and Societies
17. Education and the Role it Plays in Personal Development
18. An Effective Use of ICT for Educational Purposes
19. The Role of Education in National Development
20. A Study of the Effect of Discipline and Reward in Education

Here we are at the end of 20 unique topics on the topic of education and its diverse functions to society. These topics were provided to help and the ease in which they could be worked upon and drafted out makes them viable options for your homework essay. Make sure to pay a visit to our 10 facts for an informative essay on education and guide on this general academic genre. So as earlier explained, below is an essay on one of our 20 topics providing you a blueprint which you can put to use when writing.

Sample Informative Essay: The Growing Education Gap between Rich and Poor Students

Education as the saying goes, is a tool for fostering equality by providing the disadvantaged with the needed leverage and knowledge to grow. But is this really so? And do the facts really back education’s ability to create social equality?

Here, I will attempt to answer these questions using a holistic approach that would present the facts and figures behind receiving an education before making educated inferences that would provide the needed answers.

It is a proven fact that education has played a huge role in the United States by creating a more level playing ground for people of diverse races. Statistics show that the test score deficit accrued between 1950 to 1970 – of African American students in the 9-17 year old demographic, had been drastically reduced by 50% in 2012. Thereby providing a base for these students to catch up and improve the living standards of African Americans. These positive growth among minorities which includes Native Americans is quickly erasing the education gap between white students and students of minority descent. But in the midst of these positives, a newer form of inequality is rearing its ugly head, in the form of an educational gap between students from wealthy homes and these from poorer homes.

Although this new educational gap still affects minorities to a large extent, this menace does not care about race but takes into account a family’s financial status. Therefore it affects both white, black, Hispanic and Asian students from low income backgrounds. According to Sean Reardon of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford, racial disparities are still a stain in the US’s education sector but its biggest problem today is ‘class’.

And how does class create this new gap? Students from wealthy backgrounds are privy to more educational opportunities such as the expensive private preschool programs in the United States which already puts these kids ahead of their peers right from infancy. This means that in most cases, students from wealthier homes already learn and test at a higher level than even smarter kids from poorer homes on starting kindergarten.

The next hurdle for students from low income families who manage to somehow close the learning gap encounter comes in the form of education policies in public schools. For those who inevitably attend middle school located in poor districts, a new set of challenges come up. Statistics show that schools in poorer districts are more likely to be assigned first time teachers with little or no experience than those in wealthier districts. These teachers usually get their hand full quickly and do the bare minimum required to get students ready for tests.

Other hurdles include the lack of certain important subjects students need to learn before pursuing higher education degrees due to no available teachers to teach them. Another disturbing statistics put the number of High schools, located in poorer districts that do not offer Algebra II or chemistry as one in every four. Lastly, unfair punishment policies affected by teachers who are more likely to suspend students of minority descent end up leaving these students jaded and these combined forces have led to a dropout rate of approximately 13% among black students.

And the circle continues for only 5% of Americans age 24 to 35 whose parents didn’t finish high school go on to attain a college degree. Comparing the above figure to statistics from over 20 countries which show a figure of 20% of college graduates come from parents who didn’t finish high school proves that the fault lies in the US education system.

In conclusion, this gap truly exists and can only be closed if policies are made to equalize education achievement of every student between the ages of 0 to 14. This policy will in turn provide students from every background with enough ammunition to enroll for and attain a college degree.

References:
Richard, G. (2015). Are Schools Still Struggling with Racism? Teachers more likely to label black students as troublemakers study finds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3041665/Are-schools-struggling-racism-Teachers-likely-label-black-students-troublemakers-study-finds.html
Steven, H. (2014). 14 Disturbing Facts about Racial Inequality in American Public Schools
https://www.thenation.com/article/14-disturbing-stats-about-racial-inequality-american-public-schools/
Lindsey, C. (2015). U.S. Education Still Separate and Unequal
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal
Eduardo, P. (2015). Education Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Growing Wider.
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Benjamin, L. (2016). Graph: The Growing Education Gap Between Rich and Poor.
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/graph-the-growing-education-gap-between-rich-and-poor-continued/
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