Quality Education For Students And Teachers At Home

Poverty is everywhere in this world especially in education. Poverty in education could come from the location of the school, the child’s home life, how the students feel about school and in many other ways. Poverty comes in all shapes and forms, “An appalling number of American Children live in poverty. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 14.7 million, or nearly 20 percent of children under age 18, live below the poverty line” (When Poverty…). The kids/students bring those debilitating effect with them to school every day.

In the year 2001, the United States government passed and established a law called the No Child Left Behind Act. This law created a set of standards for public schools to follow to prepare their students for college. For that to occur, schools must have their students to meet the minimum testing score in Math and Reading. If students do not reach the minimum requirement, that school would not receive federal funding. Diane Ravitch was an original supporter of this law but later changed her mind after realizing that schools became more focused in basic skills like Math and Reading and started to ignore other subjects that were deemed irrelevant since these subjects would not help a school recieve federal funding. In her essay, The Essentials of a Good Education, Diane Ravitch uses effective reasoning and pathos to persuade her audience that there is more to education than just the quality of test scores and that incorporating other subjects can be crucial to a student’s participation in society.

It has been proven by psychologists that education and learning first begins at home through the family. The author’s of this text, Hawley and Nieto, touched ground on this fact while they discussed the racial differences on education for families. They went on to express that like any other family for instance, culturally diverse families value education as well. All families share a similar positive outlook for their children, especially to break the poverty cycle. This idea brought about appeals for value that everyone is equal and deserves fair education so that professional educators may notice that all students want to prosper. However, most ethnic families feel ultimately unwelcome and out of place when it comes to their child’s education, which led to less involvement in the classroom. It is seen here that the school is supposed to be a place

Reading this book shows how social class status of a child’s parents matters. One of the big issues was how it matter in school success. Chapter 1 talks about the difference between Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth. Concerted Cultivation is a middle class child rearing technique they use on a child to improve their child talents. The middle class parents use this technique to schedule activities for their child. Parents also practice language with their child. Middle class parents let their child find agreement with them. Lareau states that middle class parents also takes more consideration with authorities that are associated with their children. For example, when a parent is not comfortable with the teacher’s way of teaching, middle class parents would directly speak with that

Mireya, the student particularly interested in pursuing a successful life, questioned the school’s actions when she asked “Why is it [...] that students who do not need what we need get so much more? And we who need it so much more get so much less?” (Kozol 208). Students like Mireya do not get to experience the variety of challenging preparatory classes that many others take for granted. A classroom full of hopefuls should have the chance to experience the liberation that knowledge provides for them, but because the school they attend doesn’t cater towards their needs, they are stuck in a perpetual confinement void of education and success that manages to extend to the generations below them as

Educational Researcher by Gloria Ladson-Billings looked into the ratio between education and achievement and what the gap was between them and how to fix it. According to an interview with strict economist Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Economics he makes it clear by stating that “ In order to reduce the debt or gap in one being achievement you must then close the gap of the other being education” Ladson-Billings also goes on to recognize the parallel between not only your economic status when it comes to education but how well your parents did before you among many other things including your health along with your overall well being playing a factor into your education ( Ladson-Billings, Oct 2006, P 5). Additionally the first teachers of a student are their parents whom in the home are responsible for teaching their children the basic fundamentals they must adhere to within society in order to navigate throughout life.Thus giving them many opportunities to experience cultural and life development (Wilburn, Smith & Hill-Carter, 2013, P 242). This research ties into chapter three of our book where education is discussed and one such topic that Michael’s remarks upon would be annual family incomes and how depending on what is made shows what the students of the

Everything in the world is based on money, whether it is housing, food, friends, clothes, or education. Schools should have a diverse curriculum that will help educate the young minds of society to create a safe environment for open, creative minds, but that option is not available to everyone due to social classes. Diane Ravitch’s optimistic essay “The Essentials of a Good Education” believes that schools focus too much on subjective testing in mathematics and reading whereas Gregory Mantsios’ realistic essay “Class in America” believes that the curriculum set in schools is determined by social class. Although one essay is more on the realistic side, the arguments Ravitch mentions in her article can shed some light of the faults on school

Quality in education is one of the most discussed issues around the globe among educational community. There is an emerging consensus that quality in education depends on the enabling inputs, educational processes, teachers’ abilities, and learners’ characteristics and the specific context.

There are many ways which you can support and promote good home learning environments. Staff could have welcome meetings for new parents/carers in the summer term as parents could build a relationship with their child’s class teacher. Also they could have taster days where the child can go to the school in the morning to get used to the classroom and the environment around them. Schools could run workshops to help the child’s parents to develop their skills they need to help their child to read. Research shows that training parents/carers to teach specific reading skills to their children can be twice as effective as encouraging the parent to read. Another way that you can support and promote good home learning environment is family learning

How can we solve this concern? Scott does not reveal this because there is no real fix. Even though we know the problem it would be almost impossible to change the system at this point, it would then mean to change our entire culture. If we did not have set standards to distinguish those who are proficient then, there would be chaos. This article leaves the reader with a sense of being incapable to change the educational system. However, this article was created to try to transform the “system”, but just allow us to be aware of this “conditioning”. “…do what you have to do in order to fulfill the requirements and move on” (Scott 156). This quote allows the reader to realize what the school system really is; a bureaucratic structure while, giving the opportunity to self-assess our identity and express with

Many educators have seen The No Child Left Behind Act as both a success and an inadequacy. Introduced in 2001, the Act’s intention was to reform education at that time. It was a step in the right direction, however, like most things, it didn’t solve the problem.  The Act pushed education to seek standardized testing as the only mean to evaluate a school’s quality of education. In fact, Robert Rothman, Scott F. Marion, and Helen Ladd believe that education needs reform. They confront their different positions on the issue in two articles. Ladd’s article is more admirable than Rothman’s and Marion’s. Ladd fulfills her purpose for writing the article in a better manner than Rothman and Marion because she communicates the issue in a formal, but

Learning objectives must include the development of higher-order skills, along with social and emotional development. Children need a safe, learner-friendly and stimulating environment. Children with disabilities and/or special needs as well as their parents need to be provided with free access to school and community based support systems. We must guarantee the right to quality education for all children. How we define, implement and assess quality of education is the key to ensuring that the process is truly expanding choices and opportunities for all

Educational development is a very important step in life; it seems that people are judged everyday especially on their education. Parents seem to go through extensive procedures to get their children through the best education possible, just to help them succeed in life. “It’s no surprise that schools in wealthy

Tracing the life of a child, he shows how an initial slow start can cause the child to lag further behind as time goes on. What struck me the most about this was how early children’s life courses are set – even before birth. Barry lists poor nutrition during pregnancy, lack of paid parental leave, and low-quality medical care in childbirth as factors that can permanently impact the child’s future learning abilities. And when students carry their environmental disadvantages into schools, Barry ways schools become places where these hindrances are “compounded and not corrected for.” These early life experiences often disqualify students from even reaching college and getting a degree, which is becoming necessary for obtain a well-paying job. In this way, education seems to become a trap – education is a way out of poverty, but poverty is a hindrance to education. The ways in which inequality compounds in schools challenges how I think about the role schools play in society as educational institutions. By looking at how disadvantages and advantages accumulate through the course of schooling, I can better understand how schools contribute to wider social

“Our educational goal [is] the production of caring, competent, loving, lovable people” . The students found in the schools across the United State are the future of America. They are the doctors, teachers, business people, lawyers and many other roles, that will be out in the workforce in the years to come. What they learn in school will impact them immensely; it is the responsibility of a teacher to give students the best education in order to ensure the common good of the future. It is essential for students to not only learn content matter, but also the skills to enable them to participate in a democracy. Due to standardized testing, the emphasis of education has become on score and rankings rather than learning. A standardized test does not look at the whole student, the scores provided are on a very narrow aspect of education. In the classroom, there are countless ways for teachers to assess the student as a whole person not as just a score. Standardized tests scores should not be the sole criteria for determining a student’s academic achievement.