Remix Project
Author's Note:
The focus I chose for this infographic was on poverty and underfunding in American schools and how it affected the education experience for students. Through this remix, I wanted to piece together information and visuals to show people how big of an issue underfunding in American education really is. It's an issue that affects millions of students in the US and over half of all school districts. It's also affecting the ability of students to learn due to lack of resources and bad conditions. I chose an infographic to show this because it's the simplest and most effective way to put all the information, like statistics and also facts and writing all together to show my point. In creating my remix, I had to worry about things like font, colors, and composition that makes the visuals look good. I chose a font that's easy to read but also serious so that it fits the serious tone of the infographic and is easily understandable. I also chose colors that are duller like brown that I feel like fit the serious tone and mood. I think that my remix puts together information and visuals from various different places to form an infographic that gives a complete picture of the true nature of poverty and funding and inequality in American Education.
Sources:
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Barshay, Jill. “An Analysis of Achievement Gaps in Every School in America Shows That Being Poor Is the Biggest Hurdle.” The Hechinger Report, 30 Mar. 2020, hechingerreport.org/an-analysis-of-achievement-gaps-in-every-school-in-america-shows-that-being-poor-is-the-biggest-hurdle/.
This source talks about how differences in achievement in black/Latino schools vs majority white schools is tied to differences in wealth between them.
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This was a picture of a computer lab, and the purpose was just to show how many computers schools need and how big of a cost that is.
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This is a picture of a bunch of textbooks being thrown out which shows the cost of textbooks and having to replace them every few years when they get outdated, which many schools in America can’t afford due to underfunding.
This source was an article that talked about a study on underfunding in schools. It had a lot of data about underfunding like how much schools in the US are actually underfunded and trends and patterns in the data, like how underfunding affects poorer minority communities more.
This source talked about how and why schools in America are underfunded and also provided a lot of useful data and information for the infographic.
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This is an image of coins which is just used to help visualize the point that many schools in the US are short of money.
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This source was an article that talked about some of the effects of underfunding of schools in America. Specifically, it talked about how underfunding led to bad conditions like lack of AC or heating in schools and old buildings that are outdated and falling apart.