World Change Starts With Educated Children

"Better World Books" is a good example of a successful social entrepreneurship venture. Founded by X.Helgessen, C.Fuchs, and J.Kurtzman, its mission is to maximize the value of every book out there and to help promote literacy around the world. It attributes its success to using "triple bottom line" model, caring about profits, and the social and environmental impact of everything they do.

This is a transparent organization that has been saving lives and families for decades. It has a large board of directors with impressive resumes. It also appears to have dedicated employees and motivated management. Charity Navigator rates this charity at 100% for accountability and transparency. (Charity, 2017)

The society spends on estimate a “total of $30,305,257 a year and receives on estimate a total of $24,945,127 a year,” so they spend more than they receive and that should be changed to help the society grow larger and help more people but they have indeed been helping multitudes of people (“Charity Navigator”).

The subject of expectations for higher education is one that tends to spark impassioned debate among educators, students and parents alike. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire presses his audience to consider such expectations in light of one’s own intentions, motives, and affections toward those to be educated (Freire 50). He goes even further to suggest that a love for one another through empathetic dialogue, especially on the part of the educator, must be present in order for fear to be wiped away and liberation to eventually take its place (Freire 89,90). It was that dialogical approach that made Freire’s literacy programs so successful in Brazil until “his work was interrupted by a military dictatorship” in the mid-60s and

The Ramapo Readers Project is one of the many different projects that was founded with the idea to promote literacy from the earliest stage of life to the last stage. It is crucial that children today are reading on a regular basis as this will improve their well-being for the future. The Ramapo reader’s project will benefit individuals in the Paterson area who are less fortunate and are unable to obtain certain privileges such as owning reading books. The Ramapo Readers have put a light on less privilege peoples life, therefore, allowing them to be able to have unlimited access to books for the entire family.

Sacrifices have been made throughout history by many to advance the field of education so all children have the opportunity for a proper education and a successful future. With these advances come all types of adjustments to keep the idea of a proper education moving. Just in the last fifty years, there have been several significant attempts to improve the educational system. The first being the A Nation at Risk report introduced in 1983.

Ever since I was a young girl, I dreamed of having a career that helped people. Growing up I had two younger siblings and I would help my mother take care of them as much as I could. I really enjoyed it and decided I wanted to become a nurse that worked with infants. I told my mother about my dream, I was nine years old at the time and she just gave me a heartbroken look and said, “That may never be able to come true because that job requires schooling and any type of education is far out of our family’s budget.” I was upset to be informed that.

Literacy Drives – Each organization that receives donations of books through a Barnes and Noble literacy drive must sign a “Receipt of Books” form stating the date and amounts of books that were received as well as the location the books are being sent to. These receipts will serve as the basis for reporting on the program’s impact in the annual

They want to be able to bring not only the knowledge of literacy deserts to the forefront of the American people, but also help end the literacy deserts themselves before they can spread. Their mission is to see a “world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a life-long love of reading” (Unite). The program desires that not only does each child have a book, but also one that celebrates each of their respective cultures. The Unite for Literacy organization has spent years analyzing statistical variables, including “income, ethnicity, geography and languages, as they relate to the number of books in homes” (Unite). They want to show the world the truth about the results of literacy deserts across the United States. The results of their research is an interactive map showing users not only how many books there are in each home by state, but by how many books there are in each home all the way down to a local scale. The map helps give a visual of the scarcity of books in low-income and rural communities. One example the map offers is seen in the state of California, where only 26 percent of homes own more than 100 book

“According to the pro-education reform documentary Waiting for Superman, one out of every 57 doctors loses his or her license to practice medicine. One out of every 97 lawyers loses their license to practice law. In many major cities, only one out of 1,000 teachers is fired for performance-related reasons. Why? Tenure.” Tenure for elementary school teachers is a union contract that offers academic freedom and job security. It does not necessarily guarantee lifetime employment but it does make the firing process extremely timely and equally as costly. It assures that if a teacher must be fired the he or she is guaranteed due process and will be fired for just cause. The original need for tenure during the late 19th century was to protect

The current worldview toward education in American culture has seemingly bottlenecked as to the understanding and significance concerning being educated. The vast majority of citizens believe education is solely based on the level or degrees achieved; however, this mentality is capable of hampering employers from reaching their full potential in many different professions. In my opinion the populace in America would find a consensus that education is an essential component in achieving a comfortable life. This begs the question, is a conventional education an absolute necessity in life? We will endeavor toward discovery of this question in an attempt to come to a resolution by evaluating, comparing and contrasting life experiences with formal education.

If I were to work for a nonprofit, I would choose Room to Read, an organization that aims towards improving literacy and gender equality in third world countries. The founder, John Wood, launched Room to Read in order to target the fact that many young girls are denied educational opportunities in the developing world. The lack of teachers, educational resources, and books have prevented them from acquiring necessary literacy skills. The organization partners with local governments to provide assistance to rural schools in addressing these problems and to ensure that students have the necessary tools to develop their literacy skills.

My last day at SME was November eight because the engineering class that I volunteer at SME has ended before the thanksgiving break. The days I volunteered since the Journal #2 are 10/31,11/01, 11/07, and 11/08., I was the only volunteer at the class on October 31. Kids are assigned to make parachutes. As usual, I helped students completing their tasks, using the tools, cutting, and gluing. It was another fun day. On my first journal, I mentioned a little girl who cries all the time and the teacher explained that she was having some difficult time adjusting. I did not see her crying on my last days, however I mostly saw her quiet and not participating. She seems sad all the time. Therefore, I approached her and tried to talk to her to cheer her up a little. The other girls on the table immediately told me that she would not understand me because she can’t speak English. I told them it is O.K if she does not know because she comes to school to learn and soon she will learn to speak English. I also told them that I too did not speak English when I first come to the America. In response to that, some of them told me that their parents cannot speak English and goes to college to learn English. Some of them told me that they too did not know how to speak English but learned when they went to the preschool. Then, I told them I am taking Spanish

Next week’s assigned readings look deep into aspects of giving and receiving through nonprofits in the United States. LeRoux’s Nonprofit Organizations and Civil Society in the United States and Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Giving USA Highlights mostly cover what types of donors there are and what their reasoning is behind giving, who benefits from these donors, and how much money is actually contributed to nonprofits. LeRoux shares a lot of interesting facts about the patterns of giving and how most of the aspects of giving are determined based on age, income, religion, and area or region. There is also a lot of information shared in these readings about where money goes to based on what type of donor is giving money. There are 7 main types

Success, achievement and participation at school are not simply a matter of intelligence or ability. Discuss this statement with reference to the concepts of cultural capital, hidden curriculum, class and socioeconomic status.