Effects of Inequality on Cognitive Development
Humanities
Attached below is the prompt for the paper. The paper is regarding the impairment of cognitive development in minority children due to inequality in shared resources among American population. Please write about a specific minority group from the sources (African American, Hispanic, Native American, etc.) Please include 4 of the included resources, APA format, 12 point.
Examine how political power and economic oppression have created social inequality in American society. And how different minority groups have been affected by these economic inequities across a life-span in term of their cognitive and biological developments. Your short paper is a topic of your own choice. However, it must be about a minority group in the United States. You need to use class reading material to make your arguments. For example, you can use the applied framework for Positive Education as conceptual framework. Below please find additional articles that can be used to make a persuasive argument.
- Basch: Breakfast and the Achievement Gap among Urban Minority Youth
- Basch: Physical Activity and the Achievement Gap among Urban Minority
- Basch:Vision and the Achievement Gap among Urban Minority Youth
- Docteur and Berenson: In pursuit of Health Equity
- Bezruchka: Health Equity in the U.S
- Policy Link: Health Equity: Moving Beyond “Health Disparities”
