Dual education system

considering parents rarely have the time to be fully involved in their child’s school. Work, poverty, other children, or lack of resources can affect a parent’s involvement. Family literacy programs are much needed in many communities and work as a support system and open opportunities for growth. Learning begins in the home, and parents need to understand the importance of their involvement in their child’s development and academic success. Literacy programs not only equipped parents with the…

Since the implementation of Individuals with Disabilites Education Act of 2004, which was created to devolp a better access of public education for students with disabilites, school districts across the nation and other geographical areas have tried to represent it in the classroom. Research has been done to understand the factors in which the transition to inclusion of students with disabilites, which is part of IDEA, have plagued the progress. It appears there may be three common factors;…

Neoliberalism and political economy Neoliberal political economy is another form of economy within the capitalist mode of production and replacing the Keynesian welfare state with pro corporate state. Post Soviet Union disintegration; most of the state adopted willingly and some places forcibly implemented the neoliberal economy. The neoliberal economy unlike the previous capitalist model came with more unprecedented development advanced information technology and promoting aggressive…

The Hunger Games. I 've learned that it doesn 't matter the level of books I read to them. But that there are lessons to take from every story no matter the reading difficulty.” There are lessons to be learned from every book and in the urban education system it is not how fast you can read but that you are able to read, retain the information, and apply it into your life. With many talks I’ve had with my sister she make this point very important in the way she teaches her…

At the grocery store, the bagger asks paper or plastic? When parents have to send their children to school, they ask public or private? Each type of school displays advantages and disadvantages that may benefit or inhibit a student’s educational development. The academics and extracurricular activities advance a student’s growth; however, the financial dependence and school demographics may hinder a student’s growth. Classrooms, desks, and teachers depict the physical aspects of a school;…

high costs associated with a 4-year college education and may be looking for alternatives. Those alternatives could include joining the workforce upon graduation or joining the armed forces. However, not every student may like those choices or is mentally or physically equipped for them. To better serve the industry’s workforce needs, some community colleges have started to offer advanced technical…

Bilingual education is a vehicle that facilitates the exposure of a fraction of the world’s collective cultures to a country’s younger generations. It serves as a bridge that connects students to different worlds and and enriches their understanding of not only their target language, but also the customs, traditions, and people of a country that is foreign to their own. And yet, there stands an argument that bilingual education is nothing more than a money-guzzling burden that imposes a…

Introduction Systems thinking, as defined by today’s scholars, has been around for decades and continues to grow as researchers turn to the past, present, and future to gain a better understanding. In fact, concepts found in systems thinking go back to the time of Aristotle (Mele, Pels, & Polses, 2010; Ing, 2013). This method points out how systems have no ends, are all interconnected, and that it is impossible to completely comprehend anything (Senge, 2014). Since humans tend to want to…

Education Education is a major social institution that helps transmit information, beliefs, and skills through formal training or teaching. Education plays a hug role across the world. Education is very universal. Functionalists believe that education contributes to society’s stability, solidarity, and well-being but does education benefit everyone? I have been able to better understand education through theories such as the functionalist theory and conflict theory. I have been able to learn…

students’ households. The city of Portland’s largest school district, Portland Public Schools, runs some of the country’s oldest and best-established dual language programs in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, and Vietnamese. However, David Douglas School District generally has too many languages to support ELs’ home languages through dual language programs. As a result, it has pursued a different approach to addressing the needs of its ELs overall and its pre-K ELs. Demographics…