Achievement gap in the United States

Did the New Deal with the goals of relief, recovery, and reform work for America? After the Wall Street stock-market crash of 1929, the United States plunged into the most prolonged economic collapse in the history of modern industrial world- a depression that continued in one form or another for a full decade. In response to the calamity of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt developed an economic program known as the New Deal after taking office in 1933. It had helped stop the…

the concrete foundation of a building, it makes sense that it needs to be strong to sustain the stress of many tons of building materials that will be erected on top of it (Nieto, S., & Bode, P.,2008). As a Puerto Rican teacher, teaching in the United States to Spanish speakers and native English speakers it is important to know each students background, especially its culture and home language. Through the years, I have seen the struggle of many parents trying to work with their child at home.…

This topic is important because teaching is one of the most important and meaningful jobs in the United States. Teachers create students into mature adults, and they need to be paid more for their huge contribution on students lives. People should take this topic seriously because people should think about the financial troubles on teachers. People need…

Derek Sivers demonstrated in his video, "Weird or just different?" that every society has its own unique way of doing things, which is termed as a people's culture. The demonstration about streets in the U.S.A. and blocks in Japan shows that what one community thinks is obvious in their setting is totally strange in another community/society. Sivers stresses the importance of traveling away from one's country to learn and understand other people's culture to avoid contradictions especially when…

Breaking The Glass Ceiling November is fast approaching along with the pressure on who to vote for. This year’s candidates come from two completely opposite backgrounds. Hillary Clinton is the first female nominee to be nominated for presidency; she was the elected democratic nominee. Donald Trump is an entertainer and a business man; he was the elected republican nominee. Voting is already an extremely tough decision to make. However, this year’s vote decisions seem to be much worse than the…

to ensure the effective use of employees towards the achievement of individual, group,…

21st century, poverty is a very large problem in public schools that teachers, and everyone else, is ignoring. In 2000, students who needed free or reduced lunch made up half of the students in four states and in 2011, half of the public school students needed free or reduced lunches in seventeen states. With counselors, nurses, and social workers being extras in a school budget, teachers have more duties to deal with than teaching. Dealing with behavior problems has become part of the job…

I believe the highest point of human achievement is art instead of war or technology. What distinguish us from other species is art, what we usually describe as a diverse range of human activities. People may not enjoy carving or drawing, but music is an art form that everybody can enjoy. Jazz music has a feature that other music form doesn't have, it spread so quickly and become so popular in 20th Century, which helped black people gained lots of benefit of American society, and eliminate much…

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…

Literature Review The gender disparity in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in the United States has reached a critical state. Previous research indicates there are several factors that have contributed to the STEM gender gap, including teacher (Beilock, Gunderson, Ramirez & Levine, 2010) and parental influences (Gunderson, Ramirez, Levine, & Beilock, 2011), stereotype threat (Shapiro & Williams, 2012), and institutional climate (Baldwin, 2009;…