Center for American Progress

Learning to read is probably the single most critical skill that a child will acquire in his or her lifetime. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, as many in every five children has a significant reading disability (American Psychological Association, 2014). An important part of reading instruction for struggling students is the use of the right program and intervention at the right time. With so many packaged reading intervention programs out there, it is difficult to…

Planned Parenthood has been at the center of many debates and at the hands of Republicans and pro life activists. Stories about how Planned Parenthood operates on the issue of abortion, which accounts a very small percentage of what they do. The crux of the establishment is to provide reproductive healthcare for women. Both houses of congress are controlled by Republicans and a bill to defund Planned Parenthood was introduced March 17 2015 by a Republican Senator. Bill S.764 would prohibit…

institutionalized discrimination by the government. This deep-rooted problem has been neglected for quite some time, but lately many organizations have been fighting to rectify this issue. One of them is a non-profit called the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, who for several decades has been a stakeholder in litigating for the LGBT community’s civil rights. An organization that has similar ideals with the SPLC is Truth Wins Out, or TWO. In the recent past they have been fighting against…

The American Dream today represents the national core belief of economic prosperity and mobility through hard work and self-motivation. Martin Luther King Jr., however, redefines this dream with the words of America’s Founding Fathers: “All men are created equal” and “they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights.” As a civil rights leader, King strives for a dream that prioritizes equality as a requirement for any economic progression. While King sought this new American…

are the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Death, one out of every three occur by heart attack and strokes in the United States, costs billions of dollars in health care which can be prevented. Four preventable risk factors occurring in heart and stroke deaths include smoking, obesity, elevated cholesterol, and elevated blood pressure. These tragic deaths effect minorities more than non-Hispanic white men. African American men…

Prompt #2 The American criminal justice system is meant to be impartial, fair, and universal regardless of the defendant’s race or socioeconomic standing. As Professor Roy stated in his lectures, the foundational principles that the legal system is built upon are to be consistent and logical (Roy). These ideals should be utilized when implementing a consistent sentencing and conviction process. In other words, the courts and law enforcement officials should only look at the crimes committed…

composition ratios demonstrate that segregation patterns are not entirely due to income differences among racial groups. Still, economic disparities between racial groups likely remains the largest barrier to integration and housing equity. African-Americans in the Puget Sound region earn between a third to half of what non-Hispanic whites earn. A 2010 study found that close to 35 percent of Seattle-area black renters and over 25 percent of black homeowners paid more than half of their income to…

This group of people, after being having countless lives taken, were driven out of their Colorado. She moves forward two decades where the American Indian community celebrate the renaming of Nichols Hall and honoring those who were slaughtered at Sand Creek. As the new plaque was unveiled it brought with it the truths behind the conquest of Native America. The center of focus in this dilemma is David Nichols the man who was revered as a successful man who prevailed in battle at Sand Creek. He…

Linda Brown and Brown v. Board of Education The Civil Rights Movement was an event in American History that played a huge role in shifting the way America is today. The Civil Rights Movement was the biggest step in breaking racial inequality and eliminating segregation between whites and blacks, and bringing the people of America closer together as a society. Numerous people helped push for racial equality, and several of them had gone down into history due to how significant their actions were…

immigration are generally difficult to understand, and, therefore, difficult for immigrants to enter the U.S(Zadeh). In the eyes of the immigrants and even some citizens, this is not the American Dream, but from the citizens’ perspective, these laws are protecting their rights to work and have their own American Dream. Some believe allowing hard working, skilled immigrants to stay in America will bring America back to being an economic leader. Allowing immigrants…