The Value of Education: A Liberal Approach Three Reasons College Still Matters, Stand and Deliver, Education’s Hungry Hearts, and Admiral McRaven’s speech at the University of Texas convey the value of education. Three Reasons College Still Matters by Andrew Delbanco discusses the major advantages of college education, particularly economic, political and personal development — the latter of the three being dismissed by college attendees and high school graduates alike. The economic advantage of college education is well known by parents and stressed to children by family and schools. For the many, it is the prime reason to attend college and serves as the first step towards working up the social ladder. In his essay, Delbanco includes the…
He states “However unintentionally, we have made something that is still inaccessible to a majority of the population- the B.A- into a symbol of first- class citizenship. I know this from experience because of the numerous times that you get told in school that one day you will be going to college so that you can get a degree and be a model citizen for all of those younger than you. Or in high school, when they say to take AP courses so that you can get ahead in college but you have to take the AP test, that you have to pay for that determines if you get to skip a college course or not. The pressure is everywhere to go to college. We see commercials about college and how it helps you get a job- which previously in this essay we talked how it isn’t always ensure-, we also see on social media that there are statistics that show what school is the best for parties, internships and just academic wise.…
President Barack Obama has suggested and promotes the idea of community collge being free for Two Years. The article “As he promotes it, Some questions Obama’s Free Community College Idea” by Joanne Jacobs, gets the views and discusses about the idea with students and politicians. I believe that it would be a good move to make the first two years of community college free, there is so much that will benefit out of this move. The whole country would benefit if the first two years of community college were free.…
In Tom Hanks “I Owe It All to Community College” tom gives his own opinion about late President Obama’s new plan to extend community college to people who cannot afford it. I think Obama had the right idea, but did not correctly set regulations to make the plan effective. I am a single mother and college student thanks to financial aid, and I work hard to maintain my grades. Often, I see students who come out of high school thinking they will be handed good grades because that’s what their past experience has been. Students who do not take their grants or scholarships seriously wasting the gift that has been handed to them.…
Inequality in America: Rhetorical Strategies in Obama 's "President Obama on Inequality" Barack Obama said “I believe the defining challenge of our time: Making sure our economy works for every working American.” (para.6) In his speech he states that “America is supposed to be land of equal outcomes but instead we strive to be a land of equal opportunity” (para.7). We try and prosper to make sure every American gets an equal right to jobs, healthcare and schooling in the United States. We have struggled with that for years and in Obama’s speech he shares that, that is why he became president.…
As a Democratic senator with a PhD in education, I would gladly help the newly reelected Republican President work out an education bill. If one of the President’s policy priorities is improving education, I could use my expertise in the field to formulate an effective education reform. The President would enjoy his or her advantage of implementing a new policy. However, my Democratic Party would object to the increase of power given to the President, for fear of Republican ideals overtaking more policies. Although the Democratic Party would oppose the compromise with Republicans, I would incorporate my Democratic beliefs to balance out the Republican President’s ideas and form a bill that would appeal to a majority of both parties in Congress.…
By Patrick Osas Edogiawere University of the people U. S. A. Caucus, White House Open Education Improvement Effort Many years back in Washington D.C, a joint meeting was held between the Congressional Black leaders and President Clinton, collaborated together on a new plan for K-12 education improvements in the U.S (Gale, 2010, p. 69-74) which they all agreed together that such plan will help provide betterment for future accomplishment. The aim of this meeting is to approve funds that will transform the weak schools and to bring in new facilities that will provide what is needed such as good infrastructures, the internet and also rebuilding old schools (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001, p. 329-351). This also gave reasons why Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y says in his comment that “Student can't aim high in schools that perform low,” (Gale, 2013, p. 521-524) which I personally agree with.…
Event Response: Black History Month Celebration The Study Hour Club and The University of Toledo sponsored the event. They co-sponsored The Black History Month Celebration. This event was February 6, 2016. It was the start of Black History Month.…
“The nation is clearly no longer content with mediocrity with just getting by. It is demanding excellent education for all” “It implies an end to the double standard and education in education, a double standard that gives high quality teaching to students and exclusive suburbs and inferior schooling to children in slums, they give preference to some states over others” You would think that this quote by Francis Keppel, in 1965, then the Commissioner of Education, who was the driving force behind the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 could have been quoted by Precedent. George W. Bush as he was implementing No Child Left Behind act of 2002. So what does the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 have to do with the No Child…
In this section, Du Bois described that life in America in general for African Americans was not easy. He believed in change starting with yourself. His plan was to the struggle black equality for abolishment of racism to the people who wanted to “separate black nation” He wanted the blacks to recognize themselves as “a nation within a nation” He didn’t want them to look for white people help to change.…
To understand why Michelle Obama gave a speech at school, “The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School has about 1,000 students, all of them girls ages 11 to 17, two-thirds of whom speak English as a second language” (Scherer, 2009,para.4). Michelle Obama decided to show up at Elizabeth G. Anderson School and gave a public speech because one of her campaigns was encouraged young women’s education. In fact, “62 million girls around the world do not attend school, some because of lack of access, others because of cultural factors in countries where women are raised to be subservient to men”(Lenahan, 2016, para.6).“Nothing that education would influence the nation’s economic future and rate of upward mobility” (Slevin, 2015, p.340). Michelle Obama…
“A more perfect union” is the name of the speech delivered by former presidential candidate barack obama on March 18, 2008 during the time of the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. He spoke to the voters and press at the National Constitution center in philadelphia. His former pastor jeremiah wright made some controversial remarks that made presidential candidate barack obama give this speech. The purpose of this speech was for Americans to be more understanding of each other’s problems regardless of their race. Presidential Candidate Barack Obama found himself in a situation where he had to address some controversial remarks made by his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and he had to condemn the statements.…
In the State of Union Address President Obama focused on many different topics. Such as helping students, the U.S economy and equal pay for equal work. These are some of many topics he spoked about. The one topic that stood out to me the most was helping students because I can relate to it the most. President Obama said that we should provide Pre-K for all.…
Review of the Literature A recent study conducted by Education Trust (2016) found that over the past decade, graduation rates for African American students improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for white students. However, because completion rates of African American students progressed at a slower and lower rate the graduation gap has grown. Of the 232 institutions studied 68.5 percent of the institutions had an African American student graduation rate increase, while 31.5 percent of institution’s African American student graduation rates decreased or stayed the same. However, while graduation rates increased for 52.8 percent of institution’s studied, gaps between African American students and white students stayed the same or increased; while 47.2 percent of institution’s gaps between African American students decreased.…
Obama’s speech inspires the crowd he is addressing, however it is not the best speech for the crowd. Jobs’ speech informs the graduating class of Stanford University about his failures such as how he “never graduated from college” (1) and how he “[got] fired from a company [he] started” (2). It is necessary for the audience to hear about failure because every college graduate will experience failure at some point in their lives. It is appropriate to discuss those failures because the graduates will feel better knowing that someone like Steve Jobs experienced failure and still found success. Steve Jobs’ commencement address builds his credibility by being honest with…