Reflection Of Education And Education : An Example Of Educational Diversity

For my entire life of schooling, both my parents and I would agree that I constantly complained about the educational systems in which I was enrolled. But when I actually take the time to think about everything I have been through, I realize that I have indeed had an excellent education. My schooling was full of opportunities and experiences, all of which contributed to the person I am today; adequate education has been an indispensable facet of my being. Sadly, not everyone has had this same privilege. And now as a college student, I am becoming even more aware of this sad fact. Looking around me in such a diverse city as Chicago, I find myself being more and more grateful. When I read Jonathan Kozol's Fremont High School, this these

It was the year 2008, I had just graduated from St. Michael’s School located in Los Angeles, CA. This year was quite exhilarating for me also scary because I was going to attend an all-girls high school. Los Angeles was my birth place also a place where I called home. One day, I came home to hearing my parents talking about moving to Mississippi. I remained devastated, not only we were moving to the south, I’m moving away from childhood friends. I was worried I wouldn’t see them again and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to make new friends in Mississippi.

Moving from Los Angeles to Chicago for my dad’s work left me marred with a longing for year-round sunshine, palm trees, and mountainous horizons – things that most Midwesterners can’t even imagine. As a Korean and Caucasian, I leave people confused with which racial slurs to throw at me (“white rice” is the most clever one yet). In first grade, my parents pulled me from school to teach me how to think for myself through homeschooling. Ironically, it was with this same sentiment that I applied eight years later to Chicago Hope Academy, another place where I’d be different. As a sophomore transfer, I was unfamiliar with rappers like Drake, Eminem, or Tupac everyone around me praised. I wasn’t used to words like “finna,” let alone the Spanish spoken by my soccer teammates as I was the only Asian-Caucasian in the student body. But at this time in my life, I realized that you learn the most about yourself when you're surrounded by those who are different from you. Several years later, my closest friends include an avid atheist (and former Buddhist), the sixth best soccer player in Illinois, and a survivor of fatal heart surgery who shouldn’t be alive – I couldn’t find a more diverse community of

That August, I relocated to Brenham ,Texas to attend Blinn College. It was an astronomical adjustment as I had never been on my own. I quickly made friends with like-minded classmates, and I was beginning to be quite successful in my classes. Any ill will I had towards attending school once again quickly faded away, yet there was an ever growing sense of doubt that something this positive would not be without a downside.

It was the summer between my eighth grade graduation and the start of my first year of high school that my family and I left behind our city dwelling first-floor three-bedroom apartment on a one-way street in Connecticut to the rurally side stacked townhomes and sub-divisions of Virginia. I had not put much thought into why we moved or what might come of moving. I did come to the conclusion that this move would be “better for us” as my mom would say because through copious amounts of research she discovered that the education provided would master that of our public school system where not all students had the books they needed in order to learn and even do homework. As the night transcended and we packed into our vehicles it was

I was met with a lot of change my freshman year. I had gone from small parochial schools with graduating classes of 30, made up of minorities, to a high school population of nearly four thousand where Blacks made up less than ten percent. It was hard. Although New York City is portrayed as a vast melting pot, it was more like many segregated ghettos that would occasionally intersect and/or riot. As a young black youth, I’d dare not step into places such as Howard Beach in the eighties and nineties for fear of my life regardless of how much I believed in my God’s protection. I’d sooner take my chances with the occasional color bline ricocheting shrapnel. So when stepping into my high school for the first time surrounded by a sea of diversity that I’d not known, I didn’t really know how to swim. I faked it the best I could by feigning bravado until I learned how to tread water. I understood clique mentality and could fall into a group where membership was determined by hue, but I chose this school because it was different. I didn’t want to fall into line that

I would like to open by identifying leadership theories that fit me the best. Honestly I believe all three fit me and I will begin with a brief backstory to explain why. Prior to coming to the University of Toledo I spent 17.5 years working for the Lucas County Juvenile Court specifically at the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center where our charge was to save the taxpayers of Lucas money by lowering the amount of youth who were committed to the Department of Youth Services in Columbus (Juvenile Prison). Our program focused on arming offending youth with the skills to re-orient safely back into the Lucas County Community. We could house 44 youth 36 male, 12 female at maximum capacity

In metropolitan urban communities, plagued with economic hardships, social injustice, and violence, rising out of those communities is glorified as the greatest achievement one could earn. In fact, most of my family members and peers congratulated me for being accepted into UNC-Chapel Hill with phrases like, “you made it” and “it’s over.” But, I knew different. I was well aware that attending UNC-Chapel Hill, the first public and most prestigious university in NC would be substantially different than the conditions of my hometown. No longer was I around the likes of my melanin, socioeconomic status, or cultural background, and adjustment proved to be difficult. During my first year a UNC, I endured social isolation, homesickness, academic hardship,

In search of popularity, economic stability and world-wide recognition; what was a sanctuary for refined scholarly independent study, have now become more like education factories. Most higher educations feel compel by internal and external stakeholders to change their initial aims. Roche (1969) in his article “Education in America: 8. The Multiversity” stated the following: “The proper goal of education is the development of the individual; and the great task is to bring the educational structure back to that purpose”. Clark Kerr, one of the chief proponents of higher education, prolific writer, educator and administer argued that higher education and multiversity would appear to be a modern hybrid with a scale of values oriented toward any

Increasing diversity in college enrollment has been a top task for universities for over fifty years. Despite the targets for diversification, a wide margin exists between the number of affluent white students and minority students enrolled in universities. One of the criteria for admission to many colleges is a standardized admission test. Those of higher socioeconomic background tend to score higher on standardized tests—of various categories: namely, SAT (referred to as “Scholastic Aptitude Test” or “Scholastic Assessment Test”) and ACT (originally “American College Testing”) for the purpose of college admission—than those from a lower socioeconomic status (SES). It is sometimes evident that it is concentrated to racial groups: white and

In higher education, diversity has many meanings and even more implications. The Encarta World English Dictionary defines diversity as, “social inclusiveness - ethnic variety, as well as socioeconomic and gender variety, in a group, society, or institution” (Soukhanov, 1999). As important as diversity is tolerance. Encarta World English Dictionary defines tolerance as, “acceptance of different views - the acceptance of the differing views of other people, e.g. in religious or political matters, and fairness toward the people who hold these different views” (Soukhanov, 1999). The following is a definition of diversity in higher education, description of the diversity of the students and staff of WGU, and how WGU

Last week I had the privilege of joining President Obama and the first lady at a White House summit designed to spur efforts to make sure that higher education serves as an engine of upward mobility rather than a replicator of inequality. One hundred college presidents came with formal pledges in hand, committing time and resources to strategies to improve access and success of disadvantaged young adults. The three heads of California’s public systems all attended, including the University of California’s new system president, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

What are the barriers to deaf students’ attainment at GCSE level, and how to overcome them.

Describe an experience that has informed your understanding of how to negotiate differences articulated in and through constructions of race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ability, and/or class. What insights or strategies do you bring forward from this experience?

“Ideological Domain- The media, arts, religion, and education represent institutions whose primary purpose is ideological - producing and distributing ideas and knowledge about society and it’s people - why society is organized the what it is what people need to know in order to function in society” (Webb, pg 12)