A 25 page research paper that looks at the literature on lack of access to education for minority groups vs. majority groups, specifically African American and Native American, the cultural underpinnings of the issue, and preventative and rehabilitative reform programs. The paper posits that the educational community must make sweeping changes in its approach to reform the ideas and programs for which have been available for decades. The reason for the new immediacy is competition from the business community because of its desire to diversify its structure. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Education is the key to freedom.
As succinct as this statement may be, it holds within its brevity the singular ability to emancipate oppression and improve dire economic situations. According to Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, education or rather the lack there of has long stood in the way of cultural progress, inasmuch as the access to academic learning has forever been restricted to certain social classes. An example of the practices described in Freire's book is that of Peter Hoeg's Borderliners, which follows the lives of three social misfits who find themselves living amidst an entirely different class of orphans, causing them to speculate as to the reason they were all assembled in such an obviously educationally imbalanced environment. No additional sources cited. A 6 page research proposal designed to assess the effect of such factors as culture, economics, and family structure on educational achievement.