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Early Education Racial Inequality
Racial Inequality was introduced into the school system at a young age. Rutgers did a test on Black children entering to kindergarten in 2016. It was found that Black children were behind in their math and English by up to nine months compared to that of the White race. The kids who are behind from the beginning in kindergartens are projected to stay behind through most of their career.

High quality early childhood education programs known as ECE are offered to kids to help them enter into kindergarten with the best understanding to help kids succeed throughout school. The difference that is seen is that Black or Hispanic groups are provided with the least, ineffective preschool learning programs where as white non-Hispanic groups of people are at higher levels of learning in the preschool setting. This causes White people to be at a higher level in education than that of the Black or Hispanics. Whites are more likely to enter into higher level ECE programs than that of the Black and Hispanic race causing them to fall into cheaper less effective ECE. White children entered into high quality early education as of 2016 is up to 24% where Blacks fall at only 15%. During tests taken in 2016 if Black and Hispanic children were to attend high quality early education for just one year the gap between the Whites and Hispanics would disappear and be almost exactly the same in the English class going into kindergarten. This would also cause the gap in math to drop to around a five month gap between the races going into kindergarten

Eleven states in 2001-2004 did a study upon the gap in quality of learning in the ECE program between races and found that Black children were more likely to attend the lower quality education rather than that of the White race. More recent studies have continued and found that the gap has never changed and there still is a gap between races in the ECE program. "Strikingly, minority students are about half as likely to be assigned to the most effective teachers and twice as likely to be assigned to the least effective." Lastly a statement made in an article is proven to be effective to the plot of inequality at an early education. This being "Research shows that compared with white students, black students are more likely to be suspended or expelled, less likely to be placed in gifted programs and subject to lower expectations from their teachers."