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Part 4: A Nation at Risk?

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Part 4 was all about all the new schools that are coming out such as charters, homeschooling, etc. There are multiple options at that time instead of choosing public and private schools. There was a huge discussion of students receiving vouchers for going to private schools. There is this disconnect where it can help students receive the education what they want, but also can lose resources and not improving public schools. The choice wasn’t an option for students depending on how much money your family has. By the years, the choice was an option, especially in New York schools. Many students were given  choices to go to any school they  choose. This opens up to all the variety of schools that are offered nowadays such as charter, public, private, and many more. The discussion still till the 2000s that they are still things need to be changed in schools. The discussion of standardized testing came up about how now everything that is learned is going towards standardized testing. Whi
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Part 3: Separate and Unequal

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For Part three there was a huge focus on how people of color impacted the education system. There was a lot of discrimination and segregation in schools. Not only with minorities, but also women had less opportunities within education. There was no equal opportunities for everyone. There was still segregation within the classrooms. African Americans weren’t still allowed into the white schools because of the law. The video we watched in class was very eye opening. I never knew how much the president had to be involved to include African Americans into school. The riots were scary. All those students were very strong to go through school with guards surrounding them.The book discuss a lot about immigrants especially Mexicans. Mexicans didn’t last long in schools due to punishing them for speaking Spanish within the schools. They will get suspended for 3 days for just speaking Spanish. Students with disabilities were also not enrolled into schools. Women were still fighting for
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4 A's

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AGREE: Breaking away from the traditional classroom Students can’t learn from this system of sitting and listening to lectures in the classroom. Wirt was trying to break away this stigma of children always sitting down and doing work. This is not an effective way for the student’s learning process. They may be able to understand it at that point, but they might not be able to retain anything in the future. Wirt wanted “was for the kids to have a rich school experience so they were busy all the time and we're getting involved in things that would interest them”(p. 86). This is something ideal even in today’s school. We want c hildren to be interactive and engaged in the classroom. They will not participate in the classroom if there’s no fun in the classroom. I think by breaking away from this rigid strategies can make students want to go to school more often. ARGUE Becoming ‘Americanized’ Immigrants have to go to school and lose in touch with their own values and customs. The
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Common School

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 It was very interesting to see how Common Schools were first developed. I think as students we tend to underestimate how much education is worth. The importance of what family you came from is very important to see how educated you are. The wealthy were easily accessible to education while the poor couldn't gain an education. There was this balance that is seen to be struggled throughout the book where they tried to make the schools be equal to everyone. They wanted these schools accessible to not only the wealthy, but the poor as well. However, the system of creating schools were still unbalanced in the beginning. There was still conflicts of sexism and racism with schools. Girls were not given the same opportunity to gain education like the boys did. Also, segregation was still affecting the school system where African Americans were not allowed to be in the schools. Tradition was something that is talked over many times within the book. Tradition is something that people fo
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Literacy Autobiography

     I have always struggled with literacy growing up as a child. I started my foundation of literacy in a private school in Paterson. I was in that private school from pre-kindergarten to kindergarten. My experiences of literacy can be only compared to my learning of literacy from a private to a public school setting. I honestly don’t remember too much of literacy within my private school. It wasn’t really much of a priority from what I remember. When my parents decide to put me in public school that is when everything changed. In my first-grade class, I struggled with reading and writing. I had to get extra help within the classroom and sometimes get pulled out as well. I had to stay behind a year due to I was behind than the others in the class.          My parents had always been my supporters by providing paid tutors and willing to participate with extra help. My stepfather would sit down with me for hours when doing homework. I always dislike doing my literacy homework so he wou
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