Today, many things are wrong in the world, making many issues seem like the most pressing civil rights issue of today. Education is one of those issues that is often tossed around without landing anywhere because people are in such a disagreement. When examined together the articles by Horace Mann and several authors seem like they have nothing in common except they all revolve about education. Inequality, and economy in education have frequently been thought of as separate issues swirling around the center theme of education. Education is the civil rights issue of today because the inequality and economics in education combine together to make education unequal.
As unequal as education is, education could be fixed to give everyone an equal quality of education. This in turn would equalize society itself.…show more content… In “The secret to fixing bad schools” by David Kirp, Union City had a higher unemployment rate “60 percent higher than the national average” and was considered to be a “factory of failure”. The percentage of Hispanics in Union City was also very high where “three-quarters of the students live in homes where only Spanish is spoken” (Kirp). Whether or not race or location matters to the quality of education isn't what matters, it's that the quality of education in that area and all the kids in the school was that bad in the first place. If children are required to go to school, then it should also be required that the quality of education for those children is good and equal enough for those children to want to go to school rather than just have it be another chore their parent forced them into. If education is not equal then what's the point in going or trying. In “Out of my hands” by Antonio Alvarez, Alvarez faced this same issue when he figured out he wouldn't be able to go to the college he wanted. “When I learned that I could
