Children in poverty make up thirty-nine percent of the population, and most of these children do not receive a good education because their parents cannot afford to send them to anything but a public school. This paper will discuss the education of children under twelve years of age who are in poverty, including programs offered to education children in poverty, how the government helps disadvantaged children, how the environment and ethnicity affect learning, and what …showed first 75 words of 2646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2646 total…percent of the population, and most of these children do not receive a good education because their parents cannot afford to send them to anything but a public school. Many things that can be done to improve education, but there is not enough being done right now to help these children. If society does not do anything now to help the education of disadvantaged children, society will have to pay dearly for their mistakes later.