Urban Education

While segregation is said the have been abolished, we can still see its effects through “second-generation discrimination” (Nieto, 2010). Nieto describes this as unequal access to learning through practices such as inflexible tracking and differentiated curriculum in different classroom and schools. When I first heard this term, it made me think about how neighborhood develop. In the cities I have traveled to I see how different areas of a town can lead to similar cultures and races forming together in specific areas. I feel this ties directly into the previous topic of funding. Every major city I have lived in had the affluent neighborhood and, on the flip side, the poor section of town. Since areas have different income levels, they will contribute to the school districts in different ways. This situation becomes exacerbated over the years as people select where to live with their families and the gap becomes wider and wider. As an Army recruiter, while not

The Harlem Children’s Zone is a community based education system started by Geoffrey Canada. His main goal with this program was to close the achievement gap between affluent and low-income children in Harlem and ensure that every student that attends the HCZ also attends college. His charter school, referred to as “ The Promise Academy,” is unique as it provides a high-performing academic program supplemented with a variety of social services including parenting classes, support system for former HCZ students who have enrolled in college, fitness programs, community centers, and an onsite-medical clinic. Children living in the inner city are historically low-performing students, because they are not worried about their grade on a test like

The gap between the nation’s best and worst public schools continues to grow. Our country is based on freedom and equality for all, yet in practice and in the spectrum of education this is rarely the case. We do not even have to step further than our own city and its public school system, which many media outlets have labeled “dysfunctional” and “in shambles.” At the same time, Montgomery County, located just northwest of the District in suburban Maryland, stands as one of the top school systems in the country. Within each of these systems, there are schools that excel and there are schools that consistently measure below average. Money alone can not erase this gap. While

As Mayor of Springfield, I will encounter a multitude of issues while trying to make this community healthier. One of the largest challenges is making sure that all people are able to receive a decent education. This problem was illustrated in the book when Wes Moore’s mother paid a large sum of money in order to send him to a more prestigious school. The schooling in his community did not seem to have teachers that wanted to teach the children or believed that they could succeed in going to college or receiving a job later in life. It is essential for our community to have good public schooling, so that even those in poverty can learn just as much and as well as those who are more wealthy.

The type of school children attend affects the priming of college for low-income students. Many of low-income students attend public school due to the fact that most of the parents cannot afford to pay for private school like students in high-income families are. Privates school can be the best in the top of schools because of all the resources they are able to receive while in the public school where most of the low-income students attend can be ranked down because they do not get enough resources needed to help the kids better succeed. In the book, Embracing Risk in Urban Education: Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Relay Race Reform, by Alice Ginsberg, it provides the negative effect public schools have accommodated

Pedro Noguera, a phenomenal urban sociologist and a professor at New York University confronts the problems which exist in our nation’s education system in his book, City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education. Noguera describes what he views to be the main problems facing urban education and suggests strategies for improvement. From years of experience as a teacher and school board member, he reflects on what he believes to be the real problems. Noguera blames the school’s failures on students, parents, and teachers which leads to blame local government officials or policymakers. Noguera states in City Schools and the American Dream, “The central argument of this book is that until there is a genuine commitment to address the social context of schooling — to confront the urban condition — it will be impossible to bring about significant and sustainable improvements in urban public schools” (pg.6). Noguera believes that we must address the central problem to make any type of solutions for improvement.

I personally think many minds are going to waste in our urban environments, minds that could be reinventing the world, but are, for some reason, only keeping themselves out of a culture that needs them. Why are there so few college-bound kids graduating from our urban schools, and why are the ones who do go to college so ill-prepared when they arrive? We live in a nation where education is a prominent force of succeeding in life. Children learn critical and analytical skills for twelve years in school to prepare to graduate high school, and go on to receive a two- or four-year college education. Being educated is an integral part of society. School helps children learn social norms and teach them how to be successful adults in society. The communities that some youth live in molds their future education and how much they succeed. Are they truly getting the best education for them to be successful college students and have a career? Or it is their education determinant of failure and going into the system? Manyof my minority students are not getting the proper education that they need to succeed. Urban students experience the lack of structure throughout their daily routine and do not understand the deficits in their education system. Urban students face many challenges: many come from neighborhoods or communities where alcohol, drug, sex, continuous violence, and poverty are rampant. [include introductory sentence here: The issues in communities of color are exacerbated when those with the most resources leave the community.”] “The highest costs of the white flight areborn by the children left in segregated, almost entirely poor neighborhood schools. [The lack of resources in the community have a negative effect on the school.]

As a tutor, I have seen the workings Stockton public schools, and compared to what I learned at their age, these students are lacking a proper education. For example, my third grade student, who is learning to multiply, is battling with addition. Meanwhile, my first grade student strains to read simple phonics. It is unfair to see children forced to receive a minimal education because of where they live in and their parents’ financial status. Therefore, my dream is to enhance the curriculum in public school systems within cities that face socioeconomic adversity. I aspire to equate the educational benefits between private and public school systems. Money should never impede a person’s path to education, and it’s unjust that it plays as a contributing

Urban Public Education is a concept and movement within public schools all over the nation. With these urban public schools there are many trials and hardships which those institutions have to work through. Ranging from poverty, funding and the never ending cycle of bullying. Bullying is a form of making another feel lesser for their race, background or sometimes just personality. Throughout time bullying has been seen as a rite of passage for children in these schools. The myth I would like to bust for you today is the one where we end these motion because it is in no way a rite or beneficial to any student in any academic situation. My second goal is to try and make you as the educator or mentor aware of detrimental things one might say when it comes to issues such as bullies.

Over the years, I met so many Shavons—Black teenage girls, most of whom were experiencing multiple traumas in their personal lives. They all had their voices silenced, their actions demonized and ultimately punished for speaking up. My master’s studies helped answer a lot of my initial puzzlements and what I learned made me a better educator but, most importantly, I believe that it has led me to a greater opportunity to contribute to our society. I am deciding to pursue my doctorate in (degree/program) because there is still much more that needs to be unlocked about the reality African-American girls currently face in urban education settings. If we as a nation want to truly transform our public education system, we have to invest our girls.

In ‘The One Best System A History of American Urban Education,’ David B. Tyack discusses how education has changed from the 1800 's to the 1900 's. He talks about the history of urban public education, as well as the progression of the one best system over the years. In part I of the text, Tyack discusses the increase the number of government in the rural education system and the issues that the education system faced such as lack of space in classrooms because of overpopulation, poor facilities and undertrained teachers who were not receiving adequate pay. The National Education Association (NEA) attempted to urbanize the rural education system. With this change, children would be taught values and skills by trained teachers, who would follow a more structured curriculum which deviates from curriculum they were used to. The rural community opposed this new system of education, perhaps because they felt they would lose control of how they taught their lessons because with the new system, they would have to follow the State Course of Study. Today, we still see this happening in schools where at the beginning of a school year, teachers are given a curriculum that they must follow in teaching their lessons as opposed to teaching what they want whenever they want to.

More likely to serve low income students is urban public schools which who are reportedly failing to educate the students they serve. In urban public schools, Numerous understudies and their families are living with serious financial disservice. Students are not proven to be the problem. The education that urban students in government funded schools get is evidently insufficient. To be a school that promotes a good academic status of students, you can’t lack basic social utilities. Poverty in urban schools can be fixed. A feature that characterizes effective schools involves coordination instruction among teachers which contributed to the weak academic performance of low income students. You must ask yourself what would be the best solution to help these students succeed? Because urban school are being run badly, they are failing. Improvement within management lies a solution. According to Chicago Tribune in the news article” Economic Inequality: The real cause of the urban school problem” findings show that the root of the problems facing urban schools can be found in gradual but extremely powerful changes in the nation's economy It takes a comfortable environment, suitable effective committed teachers, more use of instructional practices consistently and available necessities and needs. The most important statistic provided is the Growing economic inequality contributes in a multitude of ways to a widening gulf between the educational outcomes of rich and poor

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they

I am interested in completing a year-long internship in an urban school setting at Andrew Robinson Elementary because students in urban schools need dedicated teachers. Schools in urban areas have challenges that range from poverty, violence, cultural diversity, and a multitude of languages. It is so much different than teaching in suburban settings, which have more uniform student populations, parental support and stable student populations. Which is exactly what makes the urban setting so interesting to myself. Students need dedicated teachers who respect the youth, believe in them and understand the possible homes and cultures that they comes from.

Education is so important in any given society. For this reason, it forms a major part of any government’s plans. The plans that any government wishes to implement as regards their education system is determined by existing policies. Factors which influence formulation of policies form the subject of this discussion.