In the article, What the U.S. and Chinese school systems have in common: Inequality, segregation, written by Sarah Carr, she is pointing out how in both countries inequality exists, not only in society but also within in the school systems. She starts out by noting the differences between the countries. The most notable was that she said that our United States private schools are what are equivalent to Chinese public schools. Meaning that students that go to the private schools are those who are going to receive a better education. The author points out that the main reason for this inequality in the school systems is who is attending these schools and where they are located throughout the country. In China the private schools are those that are in the cities where they have many migrant families coming from different parts of the country looking for work. These are the schools that do not actually provide a lot for their students.
I think that the main reason for this inequality among schools in China, the United States, and anywhere else in the world is mostly due to the area in which a person lives. Where a person lives you can usually determine how well off they are economically. Those who live in areas where the majority of people have a substantial amount of money are more than likely going to go to the best of schools with the best teachers, and in return these students are going to receive the best education. On the other hand, families that are not as well off students are not going to go to the schools that have the best to offer. I think that in order to fix this inequality among the schools systems around the world is to have a school systems in which there are not separations among the classes or races and have all students go to one school that is within their districts.
http://hechingerreport.org/content/what-the-u-s-and-chinese-school-systems-have-in-common-inequality-segregation_7715/comment-page-1/
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