Lack of Education: Societal Problems, Solutions, and Data Analysis

This essay delves into the critical societal problems stemming from a lack of education, examining its multifaceted impacts and proposing comprehensive solutions. It begins by defining lack of education, moving beyond the simplistic view of mere knowledge absence to encompass systemic issues like inadequate opportunities, unethical practices, and deficiencies in educational systems. The essay highlights consequences such as shorter lifespans, exploitation, gender inequality, and unemployment. It emphasizes the importance of education for societal progress and economic prosperity while addressing contributing factors like insufficient funding, teacher shortages, and adult illiteracy. The proposed solutions focus on government participation through increased funding, improved monitoring, and strategic investments in both primary and higher education. The essay also interprets statistical data from NCES and UIS to emphasize the need for intervention. The essay concludes by advocating for equitable access to education, emphasizing the importance of government funding and the ethical outcomes of the proposed solutions. The essay also includes references to support the claims.

Running head: LACK OF EDUCATION
LACK OF EDUCATION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1LACK OF EDUCATION
Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Lack of Education- A social problem:...................................................................................2
Proposed solutions for multiple solutions:.............................................................................4
Interpreting statistical data:....................................................................................................5
Ethical outcomes of the solutions:.........................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References:.................................................................................................................................8

2LACK OF EDUCATION
Introduction:
Lack of education can be considered as one of the serious concerns, especially in the
21st century, where although information is readily available there is a gap in reaching out to
the unprivileged from educational opportunities and even rational or logical information. In
the past, the understanding regarding lack of education was restricted to the state where
people do not have any form of knowledge. However, the question here is, what is the
probable impact of lack of education on society. In the United States, there are different
school districts, which support the educational system with various forms of funding.
Educational qualification relates to the process of negative and positive learning (Toby,
2017). The negative and positive influences relate to the depleting or elevating levels of the
growth path of children in the purview of private and public funding, current educational
systems, procedures, and policies. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the social problem
of lack of education, followed by the recommendations on addressing the concern. There is a
huge gap witnessed between the needed educational opportunities and quality and the current
system of education, due to the inefficient professional programs and allocation of educators
but the government must offer funds as the means of support for the public schools so that
they can enhance the developmental learning skills of children.
Discussion
Lack of Education- A social problem:
The lack of education can be represented by many aspects involving, the lack of
opportunities, unethical or unfair practice of the right to education, schools lacking relevant
educational systems as well as the lack of quality in educational services. There can be the
various outcomes from the concern of lack of education such as shorter lifespan, exploitation,
gender inequality and unemployment (Roberson, 2018). Education is considered to be the

3LACK OF EDUCATION
prime motive and aspect of learning and growing with the challenges in the world. Even the
consideration has not helped with the ease of accessibility of thousands of children. Even in
the current situation, 72 million-plus children in the age of primary education have not been
given the opportunity of schooling. Even in the 21st century, the right of education is either
treated as a provision or is inaccessible for a major section of the population. Other than the
detachment from primary education, around 759 million people (adults) have not received
any form of an educational program or have been aware of the aspects, which directly
contribute to the living condition. The noticeable differences in the effects can be witnessed
through the aspects of marginalization and inequality. The most affected regions reflecting a
lack of education are underdeveloped and developing nations.
There can be various contributing factors and reasons related to the theme of a lack of
education with a societal concern. Lack of education can result in various societal concerns
and can disrupt the plan for growth. Lack of education can restrict society to flourish by
acting as a hurdle in many cases. Education restricts the construction of a democratic society.
Education challenges society for becoming geopolitically stable. Education results in
economic prosperity by breaking boundaries of skills and networking but the gap in the
required educational opportunity can restrict a society from reaching the global marketplace
(Brown, 2018). Lack of education affects society by reducing the potentiality of tolerance
amongst the social groups regarding differences as well as elevates the chance of conflicts.
Lack of education creates a medium of resistance for accepting changes, which can ultimately
help the society to develop. Lack of education results in increasing rate of criminal activities
and violence because of the lack of engagement of the community members in productive
developmental programs. According to UNESCO, the impact of the lack of education or
proper base of educational program limits the progress and development of the community
members and society. The slower or negative growth of the societies directly impacts the

4LACK OF EDUCATION
economic development of the country’s population, which reflects a direct correlation
between education and poverty rate or cycle in society. Lack of education also results in the
demeaning of the potentiality of women empowerment.
Lack of education has been perceived differently in various societies and nations with
distinctive forms of effects and relating it to the cause of various effects. By some population,
lack of education can be the cause of poverty and some belief it to be affecting the population
health. There are multiple institutions in the United States, which dedicatedly focuses on
discovering reasons for the poverty and lack of elevating societal status, for which lack of
education is considered one of the main reasons (Johnson& Ramachandran, 2017). Money
cannot solve the concerns of poverty, building schools and educational systems for both
children and adults certainly can improve the standard of living of the people below the
poverty line (Cervone, 2019). According to various researchers and demographic literature,
formal education attainment has been directly linked with the community and individual
health risks and outcomes like accidents, drug abuse, mortality and prevention from diseases
(Chahine et al., 2018). The relation mainly indication the result of lack of awareness
regarding existing healthcare facilities, educational programs for maintaining hygiene and
lack of awareness regarding the measures, which can prevent the society from being affected
by various controllable diseases.
Proposed solutions for multiple solutions:
The solution directed towards responding to the concern and effects of lack of
education will be focussed on the government's participation in integrating expertise and
funding. There can be various concerns arising from lack of education inefficient educational
system, insufficient teachers' support, poverty, lack of quality and lack of equal practice of
rights. The part role of the government participation should be focussed at allocating funds
for each state of the nation along with a monitoring system, which can keep track of the

5LACK OF EDUCATION
improvement and quality measurements based on the critical success factors such as,
increased rate of schools, stable and equitable educational system and motivational programs
for encouraging and attracting unaware and unprivileged children (Morgan, 2019). The fund
should not only be the medium of allocating payment but should be focussed on improving
the educational delivery and assurance (Englander& Carraccio, 2018). The problem of
teacher turnover can be addressed by allocating additional funds for the struggling districts
for establishing decent salary packages and cash incentives. Another major concern in the
purview of the lack of education is witnessed to be adult literacy. Lack of education is always
associated within the context of children's literacy but the government should also
concentrate in the context of adult education by conducting funded programs for expanding
the reach of educational opportunities towards the avoided demography of the population.
Governmental participation with funds should also be directed towards strengthening school
leadership quality, and integrating policies for focussed investment in the early stages of
students' primary and secondary education as investing in the early educational system
improves the state of equity and economical efficiency (Leydesdorff, Bornmann& Wagner,
2019). Integrating equity with economical efficiency can result in the overall growth of
society along with respect for a diverse population. In accordance with a financial
perspective, in all the OECD nations, the advantages of investing within upper secondary
education will surely outweigh the invested costs. Funding towards the development of
higher education can result in the rate of return of around 7.7 percent amounting to 36,000
USD public net return (average) per individual in the society (Curtis, 2018).
Interpreting statistical data:
As per the data provided by UIS (2020), one-fifth of the adolescents and youth remain
out of school. UNESCO Institute for Statistics states that this means a total of around 263
million youth and adolescents are out of school worldwide and things have come to a

6LACK OF EDUCATION
standstill. The educational condition considers the data from the surveys that are conducted
by NCES (National Center for Education Statistics). The detailed description of the data can
be found on the NCES website under Surveys and Programs. It can be interpreted from the
data of NCES (2020), that the public school enrolment is greater than that of the private
school enrolment by approximately 8.5 times in the year 2015. This suggests that the
Government must take some initiatives for ensuring the education of this large base of
candidates. It can also be interpreted. Only 10 percent of children under the age of 18 who are
living in households without a parent completed high school, out of which 26 percent
belonged from mother-only households, 8 percent belonged to father-only households, and
families living in poverty were around 18%.
Since the data has been taken from the US Bureau (2020), where public transparency
and accountability is maintained, these sources are free from biases and are reliable. The
strengths of the Census as a source are –reliable data, suitable choice and it is a basis of
several stories. The disadvantages on the other hand are is time-consuming, error possibilities
increase with investigation from the census.
The gap in this study is the government funding issue. Several students enrolled in
public school. It is therefore required for the government to understand the issues prevailing
in the education sector. It needs to be addressed properly by increasing the number of quality
teachers and through proper findings.
Ethical outcomes of the solutions:
The proposed solution will bring equity, diversity, encouraged practiced of rights and
attraction of every population categorization towards the state of educational efficiency. The
solution will respond to the concern of lack of education by integrating a fair process and
strategy of governmental funding, which will encourage every demographic segment, both

7LACK OF EDUCATION
children and adult and every status or level of society, rich, middle class and especially poor
or underprivileged for being able to acquire necessary educational programs, so that they can
actively and fairly participate in the development of a society and overall nation. One positive
ethical outcome will be the reflection of an equitable process of delivery education with the
strategic funding system of government participation rather than relying on independent
institutions (Schueler& West, 2016). The proposed solution will benefit the majority of the
population. However, the monitoring system for assessing the effective use of funds can be
influenced by state laws and community pressure, which will result in a negative ethical
outcome.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded from the above discussion that lack of education is a
serious social problem that involves lack of opportunities in relation to education and
knowledge. The marginalized sections of the society are often deprived of the benefits of
education that result in various societal concerns and disrupts growth plan. According to
NCES also the number of children attaining education is very low. Negative societal growth
in turn impacts economic development. It has also been analyzed that attainment of formal
education is directly linked with community and individual health risks and outcomes. The
best possible solution to this condition is government’s participation and contribution in this
issue. Integrated and expertise funding can help in addressing the diversified needs, reducing
teacher turnovers and answering poverty through building up educational facilities. The
proposed solution will help in equitable delivery of education to every people irrespective of
their class and society and enhance children development and skills.

8LACK OF EDUCATION
References:
Brown, C. (2018). Education Policy and the Binds of Poverty:: Lack of Aspiration or a
Failure of the Imagination?. In The Working Class: Poverty, Education and
Alternative Voices. Crown House.
Cervone, J. A. (2019). No longer forgotten: The triumphs and struggles of rural education in
America. Journal of Research in Rural Education (Online), 35(8), 1-5.
Chahine, S., Kulasegaram, K. M., Wright, S., Monteiro, S., Grierson, L. E., Barber, C., ... &
Touchie, C. (2018). A call to investigate the relationship between education and
health outcomes using big data. Academic Medicine, 93(6), 829-832.
Curtis, B. (2018). Education as poverty reduction. In Understanding Global Poverty (Vol.
201, No. 221, pp. 201-221). ROUTLEDGE in association with GSE Research.
Englander, R., & Carraccio, C. (2018). A lack of continuity in education, training, and
practice violates the “do no harm” principle. Academic Medicine, 93(3), S12-S16.
Johnson, B., & Ramachandran, C. (2017). Multidimensional poverty index (MPI)–a tool for
estimating poverty.
Leydesdorff, L., Bornmann, L., & Wagner, C. S. (2019). The relative influences of
government funding and international collaboration on citation impact. Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(2), 198-201.
Morgan, H. (2019). Why Is It So Hard to Send My Kid to a Good Preschool? The Shocking
Truth About Early Education in America. Voices of Reform: Educational Research to
Inform and Reform, 2(1), 59-72.
NCES. (2020). Retrieved 15 April 2020, from https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019144.pdf

9LACK OF EDUCATION
Roberson, D. (2018). Education Inequality in America. In Routledge Handbook of Social,
Economic, and Criminal Justice (pp. 58-65). Routledge.
Schueler, B. E., & West, M. R. (2016). Sticker shock: How information affects citizen
support for public school funding. Public opinion quarterly, 80(1), 90-113.
Toby, J. (2017). The Lowering of Higher Education in America. Routledge.
UIS. (2020). Education Data Release: One in Every Five Children, Adolescents and Youth is
Out of School | UNESCO UIS. Retrieved 15 April 2020, from
http://uis.unesco.org/en/news/education-data-release-one-every-five-children-
adolescents-and-youth-out-school
US Bureau. (2020). Educational Attainment in the United States: 2017. Retrieved 15 April
2020, from https://census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/education-attainment/cps-
detailed-tables.html