What Is The Importance Of Education In Education

Education was and still is a very important aspect in life, but Jim Crow laws made receiving an equal education an impossible task. “Education: The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately” Florida (“Jim Crow Laws”). Although both races did receive an education, they were not equal. Schools for white

One of the many aspects of life which were a difficulty in the 1930s was school. In the 1930s, schools were separate, but supposedly still equal. Unfortunately, this idea did not match the reality of life at the time. Though schools weren’t incredible for white students, the black students had it far worse (“The 1930s: Education Overview”). White schools had more funding and could afford better teachers, as well as better school buildings, and more learning opportunities. Along with these, the learning environment was generally better, as people generally cared more about the education of white children than that of colored children. “Two hundred thirty southern counties did not have a single high school for black students in 1932—even though

Prior to the 1950s, children of color were kept separate from their Caucasian peers in the American Public schools. Everything from the water fountains to the classrooms were kept apart from the other. Attempts to desegregate the school system began after the civil rights movement as a whole took their fight to the courts. Cases such as Brown v. The Board of Education and Cooper v. Anderson fought to dismantle the laws in place. The fight was long and tedious, but even when the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation be ceased, the system and opinions of many kept the patterns going. The belief that all people, regardless of skin color, should have the right to a decent education under a democracy is what drove the fight for equality in the school system. The civil rights movement, United States Supreme Court rulings, Ruby Bridges and the Little Rock Nine played massive roles in the journey towards equality in education.

Before the Civil Rights, most African Americans were not well educated. Most did not go to school and could not read nor write. Those fortunate to go to school, went to schools with less financial support, less well paid teachers, and fewer books. The white people were afraid of the black people challenging them in receiving jobs. In order to discharged of segregation amongst schools, it started with removing the signs that read “Whites Only” and “Colored Only” in areas such as cafeteria tables, churches, schools, and water fountains. The 1954 Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education was the prime responsibility of outlawing segregated education. From here on out African Americans began to gain their rights to equal education as the whites. They became more advance in their education: “in 1998 88 percent of African Americans aged twenty-five to twenty-nine had graduated from high school and approximately 15 percent had completed at least a bachelor’s degree” (Cha-Jua 21). The difference throughout the years of gaining higher education as African Americans is very obvious through the fact that in 1971 the average seventeen-year-old African American could read no better than an eleven-year-old white child. However, by the 1980’s, African Americans in their senior year of high school were reading only two and a half years behind the white students. Once getting an education,

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed as part of Johnson’s scheme of ‘War on Poverty’. Johnson believed that equal access to education was vital for a progression of future generations; this Act had posed as the most important legislation for striking poverty. Consequently, this had acted as a catalyst aiding the growth of black Americans within the society, as many African Americans due to the ongoing discrimination had poor living standards due to unequal employment opportunities, and segregated schools meant that teachers in ‘black’ schools had little qualifications therefore future generations would lack in the educational component having low literacy rates. The programmes implemented by Johnson served the purposes of improving services for special educational needs of children deprived of fundamental skills. It had greatly improved life for black Americans as it was a huge leap for civil rights providing the foundation of a prosperous forthcoming life for black Americans, as by the end of 1960s the percentage of black American children obtaining a high school diploma had soared from 40% to 60%.

The historical events that shaped the social and political status of African American education between 1910 and 1960 revolved mainly around the issues of slavery. The constrained African American education was mainly applied as a method quelling fears of slavery rebellions, which intensified the African American people’s desire for education. After the abolition of slavery, education for African American people was consigned to poorly funded and segregated educational institutions. Racial segregation in the US was a term that included segregation of services and facilities including medical care, education, housing, transportation, and employment along racial lines. This implies that segregation referred to social and legal enforced separation

The 1950’s to the late 1960’s faced many changes in the segregation amongst the United States. In 1954, the education system in the city of Topeka, Kansas found it’s way into the court room. Previously in 1896, schools were labeled as equal but segregated. However, in the NAACP fought to end segregation in the school system on the grounds of inequality still existing in the education system. At last, on May 17th, the Supreme Court ruled unanimous to end segregation amongst students in the education system.

Throughout the history of America issues around race have brought great debate and augments. Being a nation birth from ideals of freedom and undeniable human rights America has failed in being truthful to its founding. The treatment of African-American is an atrocity that stains the history of our nation’s past. Steps have been made to heal the injustice, but they are just steps. In this essay, I will be discussing school desegregation focusing on the landmark and controversial Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education and the effect is had on the nation and even the world. Many people ignore the fact school segregation has not been fixed. The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education is just something people learn in their

In 1950 and beyond education institution were segregated. The decision by the supreme court in Brown vs the Board of Education ruled that segregated schools were intentionally unequal. However, without school segregation why in 2016 are the same problems pertaining to the education of African American children in the public school systems still exist? Hopefully.in time, the White House Imitative on Education Excellence for African American will truly bring about the kind of changes sought by civil rights activities in the 1950’s. Maybe, we will finally bear witness to more than just inherent equality, but a true and lasting race blindness in the eyes of the United States education

In 1948, a black American, George McLaurin, was accepted to the University of Oklahoma but treated with much disrespect. He sat in a desk roped off from the others in class, he ate lunch by himself, and he studied in a separate library. This is just one of the many things that occurred during the time of ‘separate but equal’. Due to the poor conditions in black schools under ‘separate but equal’, the main argument of the NAACP attorneys cases was to end segregation in schools, leading to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to integrate black and white public schools.

In American Dilemma (1944), Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, writes about the economic conditions that plagued the Negro race in 1944 during World War II. According to Myrdal, “except for a small minority enjoying upper or middle-class status, the masses of American Negroes, in the rural South and in segregated slum quarters in Southern and Northern cities, are destitute. They own little property; even their household goods are mostly inadequate and dilapidate. Their incomes are not only low, but irregular. They live from day to day and have scant security for the future” (Katznelson 29).

From the 1880s to about the mid 1960s segregation had taken over American cities and towns. Segregation is the act of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. In America, African Americans were segregated from White people. Segregation was a result of the abolishment of slavery twenty-five years before. Whites still wanted to feel superior to the Blacks, and without slavery to chain them down, they decided to begin segregation by establishing Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws segregated Americans, by the color of their skin, in all public facilities: schools, restaurants, hospitals, schools, restrooms and more. In this essay I will be focusing on two main areas where segregation took place, in

Education in the South wasn’t that big, but it kept growing throughout years that came. Public schools weren’t as common as they were in the North, but some were held at church houses or organized in some way. Some Southerners campaigned for universal public education. African Americans didn’t have many sources of education, but their parents and them didn’t let discrimination stop them. They tried to build and keep schools to improve their education. The public schools that were created were all based on discrimination. Schools were either for whites or the colored. Some colored schools were located in rural (relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town) areas and it took them a long time to get to school, some students had to walk long distances/miles to get educated. Some schools weren’t year round because they were either too small or too far away.

My motivation to teach is rooted in my love for social studies including the opportunities that are available to facilitate conversations that engage students in critically analyzing the past while making connections to the present. I majored in history at California State University, San Bernardino which provided me with a foundation in social studies that I have continued to build upon as an educator. Throughout my academic journey, I have explored various disciplines while trying to discover my niche. Ultimately, my journey kept bringing me back to social studies and reinforcing my love for the discipline that explored so many social issues and one that encompassed a diversity of thought and discussion through courses like psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, and so on. However, it is one thing to learn and develop your own content knowledge, but it is very different to transfer this knowledge to students. My background knowledge of social studies helped me in my journey at TC to begin to take what I already knew and apply it to teaching students. I believe that teachers should dedicate themselves to be lifelong learners so that they may better help students in the acquisition of new knowledge. TC has given me the tools upon which to continue to grow to begin this journey as an educator.

Education is one of the fundamental aspects of developed societies. It prepares children for their future jobs- many of which are being taken over by robots- by teaching them skills such as solving mathematical equations or building computers. Although the U.S spends the most money out of any country on education (XYZ), U.S college graduations rates are decreasing every year, far behind its level of international dominance 100 years ago. There are multiple reasons why America’s education system is declining. First, teachers aren’t prepared, efficient, or engaged enough in their job: many students get bored and distracted in school, thus limiting their potential to learn. Second, schools aren’t accommodating for students with disabilities or special needs: poor kids with learning disabilities rarely succeed compared to their normal peers. Third, the values brought on by school aren’t relevant towards students’ learning: students are required to study for standardized tests over their schoolwork, students prioritize their grades over learning (which may lead to cheating), and teachers are given more responsibility for students’ learning rather than the students taking more responsibility themselves. Cathy Davidson analyzes these issues and proposes different approaches for reforming education in her essay “Project Classroom Makeover”. Davidson argues that “unlearning” concepts in schools improves a student’s overall performance. For example, irrelevant school subjects and