From Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Summary

Do teachers still teach what you expect the students can learn and remain in their social class or do you still teach them what will give them the flexibility to choose their path in life? According to Jean Anyon in the article “ Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum”, the Hidden Curriculum sets the students to remain within their economic class, which causes inequality in the society. Her findings challenged the work of sociologists who assume that the student's academic success depends on their self-motivation to succeed. I'm of the two mind that the more money you have, the better education your child receives. On the other hand, I also agree that the student success depends on their self-motivation. However, I don't concur that the Hidden Curriculum still exists in schools as at today because instructors are trying their best to rouse students towards achieving more prominent positions in life with the help of information technology, teachers also develop discipline in students and finally, education is reducing inequality in the United States. Therefore, I still maintain that the Hidden Curriculum does not exist in our schools as at present.

Research shows that in low-income schools, through the years 1960 through 1980, public schools in American neighborhoods became racially integrated. Around the years 1970 through 2009, American neighborhoods increased more in segregation. In the year 1980, public schools and neighborhoods had divided. Fewer whites attended schools with low-income classmates, non-white students are more likely to attend at the same income in neighborhoods of poverty.

American public schools haven’t changed as much as we think they have since the twentieth century. We still have schools divided among different parts of the city, however, in recent times we are becoming less diverse. Schools are becoming segregated due to the fact that certain schools only accept students for certain regions and those regions of the city are not diverse, which leads some schools into looking the same way as they did before 1950. Up until the mid-nineteen-hundreds, segregation was the norm and “separate but equal” was what kept it alive. But, African-American students were not given equal treatment. It has been installed in humans especially in the past to see anyone different than us to be unequal. People were very

1954 in october 11. Emma a five year old, she asks “If she could go to the white kids school?”. Her parents tells her “That can never be,because the schools are segregated”. She shakes her and heads off to school. As she goes to school she begins to think how the white kids school looks better than the black kids school. She then thinks “I should have the same things as anyone else”. Nine years past since that day,Emma is now on the top of her grades and classes. But she knows she’s not getting the really education she needs or wants. The teacher gains her attention as she comes back from her thoughts. “Sorry Mr.Ekins,but i have a question i’m hoping you could answer?” she asks. “Yes what’s your question?”

In Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum, Anyon takes a gander at course work and understudy instructor collaboration in grade schools situated in groups with shifting levels of financial status, and she endeavors to discover proof of the distinctions in student work in schools in poorer communities versus those in wealthier groups, with an end goal to bolster the contention made by different types of knowledge that government funded schools in our general public give diverse sorts of information and distinctive instructive encounters to offspring of diverse social classes.

In the article Segregation by Newsweek it states that a new form of segregation is emerging in the nation's schools, particularly in the South. Many white students remain cloistered in their own schools, particularly in regions with few non-white residents. Meanwhile, non-white racial groups, Latinos and blacks in particular, are often located in schools with a non-white majority. These schools with non-white majorities are also often located in areas with high crime and poverty rates.

The public schools of Evanston that I have attended have been widely diverse with many different races of kids attending those schools with me. Ed Finkel reports, “Of the 4,396 students from kindergarten through 5th grade enrolled in the district's 12 elementary schools at the start of last school year, 41 percent were black, 41 percent were white, 11 percent were Latino, 4 percent were Asian and 3 percent were multi-racial.” (Finkel 4). Ed Finkel is point out that these schools in my community are very diverse in race and culture. Attending these schools throughout my life has made a huge impact on me. Being with all of these kids has made me very comfortable around other people as well as made me very outgoing. Not only has the diversity

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the curriculum in five different elementary schools was similar, different, or varied by social class. Jean Anyon (1981), was studying whether social class effected school knowledge gained by the level of income and the areas in which they lived. Researchers were evaluating why things such as the appearance of the five neighborhoods, schools, and socioeconomic income level of the school parents would affect the way the teachers taught

In the last five decades, racial discrimination limited many inhabitants in America. Access to all facilities depended on the race. The Whites were given the priority over the Blacks, the African-Americans, and the other minor groups. In those times, as much as some of the minority races dominated in some areas, this was not the case in schools. It did not guarantee them easy access to the state's functionalities. While bringing up children, educational facilities denied the children from the discriminated races the essential services in schools affecting their access to education. Currently, race matters less than the level of income and the social class, hence the variations

Education in America has been on the decline in comparison to that of other industrialized nations. The education system that children are a part of now does not compare to where their education should be. However, the value placed on education is also something that has changed dramatically. In the United States, education is made out to be very important, but because it is a given right to get an education, many individuals take this concept for granted. However, in other countries, especially those not as developed as the United States, education is the only way to succeed (Cook & Cook, 2009). Education in the United States is supposed to the social class equalizer. Children are all supposed to develop at a healthy intellectual rate because schooling is supposed to be equal for all. But the truth is vastly different. A well-rounded education in the United States is regionalized to certain areas, mostly those with the most financial resources. That is, children who are unfortunate enough to grow up in lower social class neighborhoods will not get the same caliber of education as those children growing up in rich neighborhoods (Cook & Cook, 2009).

Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education ruled segregation unlawful, schools in America are more segregated than they were in the early 1960’s. Recently a study made by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project released a list of severely segregated school districts in the nation, which showcases New York City at the top of the list. Contrary to New York City’s appeal on diversity, “81.7% of black students in New York City attend segregated schools” highlighting the failure of educational equity (Yin). Segregation in New York City’s public-school system occurred, in part, as a result of the construction of public housing in the city. During the 1950’s, the federal and local governments used public housing to increasingly segregate African Americans into low income urban neighborhoods while funding middle-class whites with mortgage guarantees and forcing them to abandon the urban areas for a more affluent area (Rothstein). Even with the desegregation mandates backed by Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there was a lot of resistance for integration causing segregation to travel into schools. Within each school, ability grouping (or grouping students into classrooms and/or courses based on ability) purposely creates a “superior” group that considers itself greater than others in their level. In the years immediately following integration those who were in the lower group were often minorities from a disadvantaged background (Nelson 364). Regardless if ability

If there is one thing Kozol wants us to take from his book, it is that schools are segregated and unequal. Kozol was given a heart for these inner-city schools after working at these schools in his early career. This is when he bared witness to the pure inequality in comparison to other, not coincidentally, whiter schools. Kozol mentions how he finds it ironic that the schools named after civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. are nearly only black or hispanic. That is quite the opposite of the future that these activists fought for years ago. How did we get here? Did we legalize segregation? Unfortunately, the media likes to make Trump supporters and conservatives into this racist army ready to lynch and harass all minorities in a heartbeat but it is simply not true. Racist tendencies are at their lowest ever. Racism is on a downward slope lessening every year. It surely still exists but not to the extent the fear-mongering media tells us. I believe the theories that we are dealing with the consequences of past racism and things like white flight from the 50s and 60s. The past caused these conditions but yes we are responsible for the extremely poor effort to right these wrongs. As we debate children slip through the cracks into terrible futures everyday. Should we begin integration efforts to even the racial ratios out? I do not think Kozol is saying this but he is adamant that the answer for these children is not “blacks remaining walled off from the rest of

In order to discern how this segregated school system was built, one must understand mid-century American history. African Americans

Social class can play a big part in the evolution of a student’s education. For most students growing up, all that crosses their minds is having fun and enjoying their childhood regardless of where they come from. Once students’ start to recognize life after high school, it is no longer about fun and games, instead they turn to their parents for guidance. This is where social class comes into the equation. A student from a poor background will start to realize that they must work harder if they want to continue their education and pursue college. All they are exposed to is what they notice their parents are doing for a living. In most cases this revolves around getting a low-paying job and living on a tight budget. This is all the student is exposed to and if their parents don’t know much about college they can’t expose their children to different paths, and students tend to be confused. Compare that to a student who that comes from a middle-class or rich family with more exposure to the world and the different career paths. They are more aware of the opportunities that are around them. These students know that going to college will guide you to success. Thus, by comparing the difference between low and high-class, learning that success doesn’t come easy, and realizing that colleges affect the kinds of opportunity a person gets, proves that social class controls student’s paths to success.

Education in schools today is very important to a student’s success. From reading a particular passage, I read about a particular student who was denied as school valedictorian for the simple fact that she was black. To fully understand what role integration plays, or should play in public education today, there are some key components that one must understand. The first component addresses how much it really matters to see that schools are pretty much segregated as they were in 1968.