Social Change Analysis

In my Education for Social Change in the United States (EDU 300) class, we have learned so many things about the roots of some issues our society still facing today. In this class, there had been many answers to the questions I thought couldn’t be answered, because I used to think that things just happen. There are two important lessons that will stay in my mind thanks to this class. The first one is that we, all, in a way or another have privileges and the second one is that there is no justice without equity. These are powerful lessons, that will be present in my mind and will be implemented in my social action projects. Social action projects are a kind of programs, which address a specific issue in our society or community. In a social …show more content…
I also would like to do it because I feel the need of helping my community and if one day I am able to implement this social action project I hope it works. I am a Dominican immigrant student and we face many issues in the United States of America. Almost always the reason Dominican immigrants come to the United States is seeking for a better future to their family. Many of them are specially looking for a better education to their children. Unfortunately, in class I confirmed that there are many irregularities in the education system of the United States and I used to think that these issues only happened in my school. This is sad because education is the key of success and is the main reason of many people immigrating to this country. I found that the main gap of the Dominican immigrant students is in college attainment “for the foreigners (born in the Dominican Republic), in males, there was (10.9%) and in females, there was (10.8%) college attainment in 2010.” There are many reasons that contribute to this gap, first, we have these students facing a language barrier, economically problems and personal problem as well. Also, they have to face a way of living very different than their country. These students have to get used to a change basically in every sense. Even though I can list many things that lead to the gap of Dominican Immigrant Students in …show more content…
The study determinants that “immigrant students with high level of verbal abilities in their first language will improve English as a second language.” meaning that if the Dominican immigrant students have a high verbal level in Spanish they will improve their English. There is another important study that help me create my social action project which took four-year examining the influence that parents, friends, and teachers have on the academic achievement of nine Dominican students and conclude that “only when parental support was combined with support from friends, teachers, or professors did participants do well.” meaning that the support system students feel from their parents and teacher is crucial in their academic