Achievement gap in the United States

The human side of school change: Reform, resistance, and the real-life problems of innovation. San Francisco, Jossey Bass. Text Purpose: This book is a study of school reform and the real-life challenges that face school systems across the United States. The first three chapters discuss and review the way individuals perceive change and how that perception forms the culture in schools. By examining the history of the school reform movement, the author provides insight into the mistakes…

American Dream has been around for awhile now. However, it was first publicly defined in 1931 by James Truslow as the “dream of a land in which life should be better or richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” That may have been written in 1931 but I don’t believe it could ever be truer but maybe with some change as time has an impact on everything. The American Dream has many facets and feasibilities covered will how it has changed, how…

In 1962, Michael Friedman proposed a doctrine in which he states that a company whose goal is to increase profits (legally) has the only social responsibility of a company is to pass on the profits to its stakeholders. In other words, the company does not do justice to its stakeholders by utilizing part of their profits for supporting social welfare causes. Friedman points out stakeholders would not invest in a company from which they cannot the maximum benefits. [1] Over the years, this…

divorce was settled, my mother, my brother, and I moved to our current residence in Lynn, Massachusetts. My mother decided to move from Puerto Rico to the United States and specifically to Massachusetts because my mother wanted to be closer to her family. All of my mother’s extended family lives in the city we live in. Moving to United States was a big culture shock in my life. Everything was new and different. I had to adjust to the weather, had met new extended family that I never had contact…

Teachers are suffering from being ranked on test scores, and people have forgotten the fact that the tests that are deciding many individuals future are unfair with many gaps on effectiveness. Society fails to remember that a teacher’s job is to educate the students and is prohibited to curve their scores and even efforts. Parents and students are holding teachers responsible for the student’s grade, blaming teachers for failing the child or for not properly doing their job. As a result,…

segregation in Chicago assisted her with creating A Raisin in the Sun as stated before. Gordon believes that Hansberry’s exposure to urban segregation has “shaped her thoughts, actions, self-consciousness, radical politics, and revolutionary art.” Gordon states, “A Raisin in the Sun (1959) directly engages segregation struggles in Chicago as a penultimate symbol of black oppression and resistance. In doing so, Hansberry brought local, individual struggles of African Americans- against…

Minimizing the Impact One billion dollars. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, the state would lose one billion dollars in federal funds if less than 95% of students participated in State assessments (Illinois General Assembly). This came up during the discussion of Bill HB-0306, also known as the opting out bill. From what I have gathered throughout my twelve years in school, standardized tests were made to narrow achievement gaps and help boosts test scores in the U.S. They are…

presidency was committed expanding individual rights. Such action can be viewed as approaching the liberty in American Dream. Despite of all these success, Lyndon Johnson’s presidency did not have a satisfactory end. Mired into the war at Vietnam, the United States had to…

Though this article outlines both, Borjas and Cards perspectives of the impacts of immigration on United States economics, the article also speaks the biased dominant discourse of the white kyriarchy that perpetuates the zone of being, and the zone of not being, that immigrants face as they enter this country and are not allowed to assimilate. Though this…

fails to pass a standardized test or regents exam. Further, it is not fair, for teachers to be criticized based on how well their students perform in their state exams. In addition, it is also not fair for principals to use test scores to judge teachers how effective and ineffective they are? Ever since, the nation has industrialized, we have forgotten how strenuous teaching is and often times, they are not always observed fairly and their accomplishments are also not always acknowledged.…