The American School A Global Context Analysis

Students were given the basic necessities in the intercity schools and the environment in the classes were in horrible conditions for students to be able to pay attention in a classroom. In the podcast “The Problem We All Live with” a reporter named Elisa Crouch followed a Normandy High School honor student and as she went into his AP English class she noticed the horrible environment where the class was being taught, Crouch informs “We went into AP English, and it’s held in a science lab. The classroom across the hall, where it should be held, smells like mildew and the ventilation system doesn’t work” (Podcast 2). The school facility in the Normandy School district was not in good conditions for students to be able to concentrate and learn while being in school. This harms the students because they aren’t given a healthy school facility where they spend most of their day. Marginalized students’ education is harmed in several communities and is not given the opportunity to have a well environment like the students in a rich community have. The intercity students were harmed by the way the school did not provide a well-being environment for them to be able to study and

In the mid 1800s, the question of whether slavery was ethical or not was a particularly contentious matter. Slaves struggled to withstand the harsh treatments from their master’s, along with getting an education, until 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment formally abolished slavery. Although slavery was no longer tolerated, the racial bigotry did not end. Fast forward to the 1950s, and racial inequality is still prevalent in society. Segregation existed in almost every aspect of life ranging from miniscule topics such as where one can sit on the bus, to more serious topics such as quality of education one child receives. This discrimination was fought through protests in the civil rights movement throughout the 1950s and 1960s. As an American high school student in a country still plagued with racial discrimination today, it is imperative to remember the true value of a quality education. While James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” and Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” both emphasize the need for racial equality in education, Baldwin’s forceful and angry tone ultimately make his speech the more rhetorically effective of the two.

America’s education system is one of the most respectable, reputable and sought after commodities in our society, but it is also the most overcrowded, discriminatory, and controversial system ever established. Most people yearn for a higher education because it 's what 's expected in this society in order to get ahead. It means a better job, more money, power, prestige and a sense of entitlement. But this system has let down the children that are supposed to benefit from it. Education discriminates against minorities, and poorer class students are not expected nor encouraged to attain a higher education. The education system is set up to ensure that every child get a basic

The United States of America used to be known as one of the greatest countries to be apart of. From the jobs to the economy to education people loved to be apart of the American culture. The problem many Americans are facing today is poor education. Since America is viewed as a high profile country many people have prominent expectations on what they are receiving, specifically the education. The fact is that there are major problems with all levels of the education system today. Starting with early education, teachers are quick to say children needs to be medicated or put into special education. Proceeding to the general or high school education where kids are graduating but not prepared for what’s after. Lastly how higher education or college can hardly be afforded in today’s society. As a result of the failing education system, many parents blame the child or society when in actuality the failing system is corrupted by some teachers, lack of preparation, and lack of affordability in higher education.

For generations African Americans have been disadvantaged in America and effects of these injustices have made a lasting impression. Education is one of the leading problems in the black community. Though there have many reforms in education over the years, racial injustices still exist because no attention in placed on how legislature affects people of color. I was raised in a middle-class family of educators. My entire life I’ve been told to “stay in school, get an education, and work hard so that you can beat the system.” Recognizing the structural forces in my life has helped me understand my place in society. Being able to “understand everyday life, not through personal circumstances but through the broader historical forces that

Despite students possessing a variety of needs and learning styles, the education system was designed for a “one-size-fits-all” in an attempt to meet every child’s needs and abilities. However, this is not the common perception by those who investigate further into the diverse environments of numerous, differing schools. Jean Anyon, in “Social Class and The Hidden Curriculum of Work,”argues that the style of education students receive is decided by the social class of their community and is not uniform when concerning students of all types. Instead, working class, middle class, affluent professionals, and executive elites experience significantly dissimilar school environments. Not only are they treated differently, and taught differently, but they’re prepared for a certain future that corresponds with their social class. Anyon’s synthesis is validated by my own experience at the Windham schools in Willimantic, where the demographics of the school corresponded with the confining, restrictive, and strict teaching style described by Anyon as ‘working class’. My account depicts the harsh reality of how my disadvantaged community suffers through a school system that does not prepare them for a future beyond a life of blue-collar jobs. However, my experience also disproves Anyon’s model through several details in the style of learning, such as going out of a textbook, or also being graded on a right answer.

It also showed us that value in education comes in different forms. For example, students like DeAndre valued education but didn’t think the education he was receiving was the best approach for him. It may appear the DeAndre was uninterested in learning but in reality he was interested in learning things that could help and resonated with his cultural history. I was enlightened by the way this article helped to highlight different types of students in a positive light. I resonate with this article because I went to a high school where students were labeled as noncompliant or “acting white”. I fell that more educators should read this article to get a well-rounded view of all their students especially those in the minority community. Furthermore, after reading this article I began to brainstorm alternatives to making school more appealing to all categories of students. According to the Boston Globe a new idea called community schools are entering discussions about better school models. The Boston Globe defines community schools as “both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. Its integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and community engagement leads to improved student learning, stronger families, and healthier communities”. This idea sounds great to me because not only does it address the needs of the student

He states, “high-poverty schools across the nation have been forced to narrow the curriculum much more drastically than wealthier schools—with worse consequences for low-income students. While their more affluent peers may routinely visit museums or other cultural resources, many poor urban and rural students rely on their teachers to expose them to the kind of background knowledge that is essential to subject mastery.” Based on that opinion, he goes on to state that ironically the social justice intended by the No Child Left Behind Act has instead created further social injustice. Walker writes that an additional inconvenient truth of all this is that the impacts are irreversible, "While no one discounts the very real problem of students who can’t read or do basic math, defenders of the status quo often claim that glossing over science, arts and social studies is merely a fleeting elementary school experience—later to be recouped in middle and later high school.” Following this close he quotes Richard Milner, a professor of education and director of urban education at the University of Pittsburgh, as saying that by the time these students do reach middle school, “it is probably too

How this is really seen is as Sumner said in the Ted Talk that by not providing the enough resources. Or even how some students have to go through a rougher road in order to get the education others are getting right at their hands without having to put in extra effort. This is yet the biggest connection within this essay because I had to give up family, friends and a lifestyle that I had been used to for years in order to get the good education in a school in America. But it can also be seen in how the students behave and how they are treated. For example the teachers could be white and treat the colored students poorly or the other way around which would just make other people also do such thing. I really believe this is true especially when a school is very diverse in culture specifically. In a way some schools today are still segregated because some people will believe they shouldn’t be equal with everyone else which is totally unfair. As Sumner stated that thank to the slave trade and slave labor is that the schools were initially made. Which it wouldn’t make sense to keep them out of something that was created thanks to their

Growing up in Southeastern Kentucky, a kid doesn’t have many expectations from their parents, school teachers, or themselves. When a student walks by two teachers talking they say, “This group of 5th graders are the worst, every one of them are as dumb as a box of rocks.” This is the sad reality of what happened in my elementary school at Marie Roberts-Caney. Our school slogan is, “No student left behind.” Ever since 3rd grade I knew it was a bunch or bologna. Don’t get me wrong, I had great parents who cared about me, but they didn’t expect much from me. Neither of my parents attended college and I was afraid of it. Even as a young student, I knew I wasn’t the brightest kid in the classroom. Now that I look back, I realize how hard I worked

Generations through generations hear and see about the schools that have classroom segregation. The problem is that schools are still segregated and unequal. In the article, “Still Separate, Still Unequal” by Jonathan Kozol, mentions that the students need to do what they’re asked, have to do what they’re asked, and to do it the right way. The schools with segregated classrooms look at the students differently. For example, a black student is doing excellent academically versus a white student who is placed in a lower-class level. The black student has the opportunity to move up with his education while the white student is struggling in his level. Another issue is that the students were prohibited to speak in the classrooms and they were given time slots when the students were allowed to speak. However, segregation remains as one of the troubling feature in the American educational system. The class segregation connects to the Gramsci’s concept of hegemony. How it connects to the Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is when for example, a black student has more control in his or her education than the white student does. Because the black student has the opportunity and the achievement of higher education but the white student is in lower-class

Until quite recently, education in the United States has been more of a privilege than a human right. Slaves were deprived of reading and writing, and schools were not integrated until the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century. Even then, African-American students continued to face the harsh realities of discrimination and inferior opportunities to white students. Still today, while education has become mandatory for all children through law, many students are not provided with the proper information and resources to become successful adults. We often take education for granted, but for many young students, the idea of lifelong knowledge is somewhat of a liberating factor. Through often difficult yet inevitable situations, however,

Race is a social construct. A social construct is a social category used to group people by certain traits: class, race, gender, sexuality, etc. In The House I Live In, a documentary on the War on Drugs, race determines whether or not a person ends up in jail. In Fruitvale Station, race determines whether or not a person gets to live. In The Freedom Writers, race determines a person’s educational opportunities.

Education is taken for granted many times by students all over the world. Many don’t really know about how much other kids wish they had the same opportunities that we have. All over the world students face different obstacles just to get to school. Very often we take for granted to fact that we can either walk, drive, or ride the bus to school. Students don’t really think about school being a privilege to be able to attend, some students think about it being more of a punishment, instead of thinking of all the opportunities they will have in the future with an education.

Harvard Educational Review In “Teaching to Transgress”, Bell Hooks argues that in education should be a transformative process for both teachers and students. She states that the learning experienced should be felt with one’s body, mind and soul. Hooks recalls her days as a student where it was an all-black school, when education meant an act of rebellion against the white knowledge dominance. Students learn for the sake of wanting more knowledge and their thoughts become individualized.