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Blog Assignment Part IV - March 24

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Education in America has revolutionized the country forever. Throughout the decades, school improvements have helped students achieve the American dream they strive for. Although a difficult system for less fortunate students, everybody has access to a nationwide education to jump start their academic careers. In America, the education system is standard for all types of students. Each school has their own system of education that caters to their students needs and this depends on a multitude of implementations. For example, the type of tools the schools can provide students in and out of the classrooms. School choice improves public education because it benefits disadvantaged students, student morale and encourages positive mindsets.   Disadvantaged students benefit from school choice . Students that come from less fortunate backgrounds have options to jump start their academic careers and stay consistent. In the book, School: The Story of American Public Education, Par...

Blog Assignment Part 3 - March 10

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  Minority communities amidst the 1950s, felt the separation system in America. Different communities bundled together and stuck with one another not intertwining with another ethnic group. Such as, the minority community and the white community. There was a clear superiority in one of these communities that the American society favored. The white community had control of the American society which included the most important network, the education system. In the 1950s, this created variations of equal education and opportunities for citizens. The promise of public education was a standard that American people held onto but there was a clear factor that minority students . Author, James D. Anderson from School: The Story of American Public Education , discusses how a separate but equal system began forming to balance this separation ( in the education system ) . However, it did not process well. In America, a separate but equal system does not work for the education system ...

Blog Assignment Part 2 - February 18

  America has created an educational system that has helped its society and nation . Throughout Part Two of, School : The Story of American Education , we are introduced to an educated standard of schooling in America . The author of this section, Diane Ravitch, discusses the importance of education to immigrant communities and how they seized educational opportunities to benefit their futures. There was an understanding between all people in America that education was the future of the nation. Although this was an established mindset, there were countless difficulties keeping this mentality. Educating all types of children was a task easier spoken than exercised , which created fluctuations in the educational system . Education in America was a benefit and loss to different types of students by reason of their circumstances and opportunities.   All types of students in the American nation had a n accessed version of schooling in their community. Regardless of what ty...