Achievement gap in the United States

“ Despite some positive developments, overall foreign language instruction has decreased over the last decade and the achievement gap has widened” (Pufah and Rhodes, 2011, p 258). The efforts shown to improve language instruction in schools districts in the United States couldn’t beat the lack of funding to world language programs. The funding decrease can be observed on the type of learning tools world language teachers use daily to instruct students. According to Wallis and Steptoe (2006),…

strengthen ties to the West and particularly to the United States of America after the 1953 Iranian Coup. The CIA and the British were the masterminds of the coup. It removed the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. His plan was to nationalize Iranian oil and reduce America’s and England’s intervention in Iran. Both countries were worried of the plan and launched…

underprivileged youth suffers. In America, the land of opportunity, poor children still must overcome their socioeconomic status to receive an education equal to their richer counterparts. Education is more than an opportunity; it is a fundamental right. In United States of America, no child should be denied a great education no matter their parent’s income or what city they live in. These were the beliefs that inspired Christine Suma, my mom, mother of twelve, and lifelong Clevelander to enter…

Adolescents and the Correlation to Juvenile Delinquency Poverty is prevalent in many different communities in the United States and has been linked to a variety of weakened outcomes among youth and adolescents (Huston, 1994; Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012).These weakened outcomes include the onset of various mental health and physical health disorders, decreased academic achievement, and higher rates of involvement in juvenile crime (Wadsworth, 2008). This paper will look further into how…

to the public. These articles argue that the education system at the time was leading to a decline in the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related jobs. These jobs are widely believed to be the future of the United States of America, and the driving force of innovation worldwide. Many important figures, as well as the U.S. government, chose to motivate current and future generations to go into STEM fields. Taking a look at the research, the authors of these…

there about Latino students and their reading readiness, but, according to Schick, those studies are always with the Latino students being compared to European-American students. Latino’s represent the fastest growing population of children in the United States and are raising the number of English Language Learners, so there should be more research on print-related practices in Latino homes in America (Schick, 2015). Researchers who did past studies about Latino families didn’t even think about…

Lucy is a little girl who loves cookie dough ice cream, the color pink and Barbie dolls. At the age of six she was diagnosed with the autism spectrum disorder, but she really didn’t understand the meaning of the word “disability” until her parents enrolled her in their neighborhood public school under the assumption that the school would provide a range of appropriate services that would assure her social and academic success. Her parents were unprepared to say the least for the school’s…

defined as, “frequent violation of the person's familiar ideas about the world and of their human rights, putting the person in a state of extreme confusion and insecurity” (DePrince, A.P. & Freyd, J.J., 2002). As members of the African American culture even in predominantly minority populated cities like New York students from elementary school, community colleges to state universities like the world renowned S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook University have limited access to teaching professionals or…

Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political and social activist who accomplished many things throughout her lifetime. Gloria became nationally recognized for her leadership in the “second-wave feminist movement” during the late 60s and early 70s. She began her career for New York magazine as a columnist before becoming a founder of Ms. magazine, a publication dedicated to women’s rights and concerns. Over the course of her life, Steinem…

WWII (Nelson 212). These bombs served as a demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear weapons as each side braced its country for the possibility of global, thermonuclear war. By the mid-1950’s, both the US and the USSR developed nuclear weapons that dwarfed the size and…