Diverse Groups Within The U.S. Student Population

Diversity in Education
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The American society has turned out to be a diverse nation ethnically, culturally and racially due to an increasing influx of non-native Americans across all the U.S. States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, minority groups at the moment will become the majority group by the year 2100, where native White American will account for only 40% of the entire U.S. population. The changes in the population patterns have sparked series of debates centering on the subject of diversity in education, especially in the public schools. Therefore, reflecting into the two distinct diversity group, namely the Blacks and Asians in the U.S. student population, proper directing and managing of the existing and emerging differences in terms of backgrounds, experiences and perspective among students can be channeled and tapped positively to enrich the learning environment by developing competence and creating an equitable learning environment for all students.
The black and Asians students have been facing an uphill battle in their learning process ranging from racial prejudices, difficulty in securing high schools and undergraduate places at the universities. However, with the introduction of affirmative actions, the inclusion of the two minority groups has slightly improved over the last two decades. To begin with the black students’ demography, the U.S. Departments of Education revealed that 8,893,355 black students were attending public schools and 580,972 in the private schools in the U.S. during the 2015-2016 school year (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). For those attending the public schools, 658,323 students had enrolled in a chatter school, suggesting that there are many black students in chattered schools than in private schools (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). These has seen an increase in the number of African Americans students graduating in high schools and college, putting their graduation rate at 70.23% compared to the U.S current graduation rate at 83.6% (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). Looking are the dropping out rate, only 6.8% of blacks students drooped out of high school in 2016, which was a significant improvement in number to. 8.49% and 7.31% in 2014 and 2015 respectively (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). In terms of ambitions, the African Americans students have heightened their urge to complete high school, attend colleges and universities (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). This is evident by the doubling in number of the Black seniors who have graduated in both high schools and colleges.
Similarly, the number of Asian students has been on the rise in the U.S. over the last 20 years. During the academic year 2011-2012, 292,000 Asian students graduated from the U.S colleges and universities, which accounts to 64% of American international students (Horton, Martin, & Fasching-Varner, 2016). In the 2014-2015 academic year, 304,040 Asian students which represents 10.8% t increase over 2013-2014 academic year according to a report by the Institute of International Education (IIE). For every 3 international student in the US, one is an Asian stu...