Random facts

• Cultural capital - encompasses non-financial social assets like knowledge, skills, habits and behaviours acquired from family and cultural background impacting academic success
• Social class can influence educational achievement by affecting access to resource, quality of schools parental involvement and social expectations
• ”hidden curriculum“ - unwritten, unofficial and often unintended lessons, values and perspectives that students learn through schools culture, policies and interactions
• Factors that contribute to the achievement gap in education

  • Socioeconomic status
  • Access to resources
  • Quality of education
  • Teacher expectations
  • Family support
  • Cultural dif
  • Systemic inequalities
• Ethnicity can influence educational outcomes due to factors like access to resource, cultural differences, discrimination and stereotypes
• Teachers expectations can positively impact students performance by boosting motivation, self esteem and actual abilities
• The education system reproduce social inequalities through factors such as

  • Unequal funding for schools
  • Biased standardised testing
  • Lack of access to quality education in marginalised communities
  • limited opportunities for advancement based on socioeconomic status
• Gender is an important factor influencing educational attainment with girls generally outperforming boys at school
• Disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to be excluded from school than those who come from advantaged backgrounds
• Poverty affects children’s ability to succeed academically because it limits their access to resources and opportunities
• Children living in poverty may have less access to books, computers or other learning materials which could affect their academic achievement.
• Children living in poverty may have limited access to high-quality early years care and education which can negatively affect their cognitive development and readiness for primary school.
• Poverty has been linked to poor academic performance and lower levels of educational attainment
• Poverty has been linked to poor academic performance and lower levels of educational attainment
• Parental involvement in a child’s education is essential for their academic success and overall development
• Educational triage~ practice of prioritising students based on perceived ability to benefit from educational interventions