Literacy and History: American Public Education

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

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