Urban Education Research Paper

I walked into classes several times to witness teachers with their head in their hands, stressed from the previous class. They shake their heads when the next class begins, collecting themselves and doing their best to not let their frustrations show. Students don’t cooperate. They are unwilling to learn because they are aware that the teacher will pass them anyways. There is no real incentive for them to work hard for a high grade. The students know the teacher has to pass them or risk their job. This is an all too common scene in today’s public high schools. Unfortunately, the efforts of teachers are shoved aside and covered by pressures to churn out passing students and high test scores.

Many teachers can see students that do not have any motivation to want to progress in there studies. Similar to my situation they can counsel the student to help motivate them. Also by staying late after school to help students with topics they have difficultly understanding they can pass easily and pursue a better career. Another way that can help students motivate themselves through the educational system is through guidance counselors. In my high school students were assigned counselors that they needed to talk to at least once a week about anything we were dealing with. This helps many students because they can discuss problems at home which can cause difficultly in school, or help find other ways to help in a certain

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 students were forced into their growth of knowledge in elementary school and middle school by continuously being taught basics, in order to prepare them for high school and beyond, they get to gain their freedom and decide whether or not they want to meet their teachers’ marks in high school. Throughout the school year, there comes a time where students have to sign up for classes. By having this choice, students can decide on how they want to challenge themselves in the next school year. During my two and a half years of high school that I have conquered so far, I learned that in a classroom setting there are students who take advanced courses, enjoy the subjects that they chose to take, and try their best to get the best grades that they can receive, in order to prepare them for their future in adulthood. However, there are also students who do not try or realize the importance of the free education given to them because they do not have an interest in the subjects that teachers are teaching them or are just being forced by their students to attend school. Some teachers try their best to bring out the motivation in these students who do not yet see that education is power and freedom, but there are also teachers who ignore these helpless students that are blinded by the present things that affect them like popularity or living with the motto that “you only live once”, because these teachers do not have the inspiration in the

Lately, I’ve been writing about motivation because, it being the start of the school year, I am dying to know how to help my students (nearly all of whom start the year wanting to do well) persist in motivating themselves to do the year’s work and achieve a year’s worth (or more) of growing into people who will flourish long-term. Motivation is their job, and it’s my job to teach them how to do their job better.

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.

It just so happens that the lack of certain classes affect how "boring" or "entertaining" school is. Such classes are that of art, which can be essential to some teenage growth. My school is no exception, Odenville Middle School needs an art class.

An article by Wilcox and Wolfinger, Then comes marriage? Religion, race, and marriage in urban America examine the role that religious participation and the norms and behaviors it promotes plays in encouraging marriage among new parents in Urban America. This is the first study to offer a quantitative analysis of the association between religion and marriage among urban mothers.

After reading Project Classroom Makeover I believe there are many things that will keep us students in school. I have been a victim of the way school has been run for years not knowing we are being manipulated to be up to the high companies standards. I can connect that I am a victim of taking standardized test thinking that if I don’t do good in them I am not good at anything not carrying what my teacher would say to me about my improvement and other accomplishments. That I didn’t want to be in a place where I feel stupid and surrounded by kids that are smart, not making me feel that I am part of the environment. I also believe what keeps kids in school is a carrying teacher or having a connection with them, it is really hard to be in a classroom

Students in today's classroom are not focused in class as they should be. Some reasons involve technology, but a big factor is what they are learning is simply boring. If the school system focused more on subjects teens could relate to, school participation would greatly increase.

The standard way of thinking about motivation has it that the only way to get people to be driven is to reward them extrinsically. In other words, the way we generally try to motivate people is by dangling a carrot in front of their face, or pushing them with a poke to the ribs with stick. Many people assume that if you want someone to do something, you incentivize them with external compensation. For example, if you want a student to work harder in class, offer them extra credits. If you want your basketball team to be better, make them run more suicides as punishment. However, in this book, Drive: ’’The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us’’ by Daniel Pink challenges this conventional, preconceived notion of motivation of carrot and stick mentality. Pink divided motivation into three categories that evolved over time: motivation 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.

Changing urban education will be challenging. The changes I would make are changes in and out of the school environment. First, I would increase parent involvement. As a teacher or administrator, they should encourage parents or the extended family to come to school events. Additionally, they should be encouraged to come to back to school nights. Furthermore, staff should start enforcing attendance to back to school nights in kindergarten or elementary school so that the parent or family can be involved in their child's education, which they will hopefully follow until they graduate highschool. Second, I would increase teacher involvement. Today some universities are offering majors in urban education. If we increase the amount of universities providing this major, then more qualified teachers will be able to teacher inner city students at their full potential, which will improve urban education.

In reading this article, it essentially sums up the failing of urban school districts in a nutshell. With the politics involved in a dysfunctional bureaucracy, it is not surprising that our children will never have a chance at getting a decent education. The article describes dysfunctional bureaucracy as a disease which feeds itself on the resources it should be distributing to the schools it is ostensibly serving. This is an accurate description in the sense that an urban school district is the poster child for the lack of much needed school resources that would ensure a good quality education for our children. Failing urban school districts are so intertwined within our economic, social and political realms, it would be nearly impossible

Many Anaheim students face challenges every day. Their own personal problems at home and trying their best in classes with exams and class work. So much pressure can lead to being unmotivated. Teachers and parents should be motivating their students/children to do better at school so they can succeed in the future. In this documentary a mother wanted her daughter to become a doctor but after seeing her daughter take the dance class, she changed her mind. “ I wanted her to grow up as a doctor but if she wants to sing or dance, she has my support” (Agrelo). This mother had a goal for her own daughter but once she saw that her daughter was doing amazing and she was changing she finally saw what she was capable of doing. She will support her daughter

There is a lack of student motivation, and lack of attendance in schools. How can we spice up the school curriculum? How can struggling students do better? There are options for students who have not responded well to traditional methods.