Education issues

the Bill of Rights (Youth Rights 11). Ranking school districts from greatest to needs improvement, Texas has one of the most overrated school systems in the United States of America. Based on several factors such as decreased spending, lack of sex education, and other careless mishaps, the Texas school system is slowly working its way further and further on the public school totem pole. In order to see any changes surface, it is imperative that we become more involved in the success and…

Introduction Racism and ethnicity continue to affect the sector of education in most parts of the world. It influences adults and children experiences in education in all levels and in various ways. These include professional employment, academic performance, parental involvement, social interactions, assessment issues, and curriculum development. The terms racism and ethnicity are recognized as problematic and are created socially. Many people fail to recognize that racism is a perception about…

Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) defines parental involvement as the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities including: Assisting their child's learning; Being actively involved in their child's education at school; Serving as full partners in their child's education and being included, as appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their…

The Brown vs. Board of Education case of 1954 laid the official foundation to the long construction of racial equality in public schools. The ruling officially stated that all public schools in the United States must be desegregated. Although the decision did not exactly combine black and white students evenly, it leaned the Constitution more on the side of racial equality. America has progressed tremendously in the 21st century, compared to the horrendous amount of racism that occurred in the…

prejudiced against African American students. In a 1979 court case, Larry P. v. Riles, which argued this issue, the court agreed that schools were indeed discriminatory, and they ruled each state to construct a plan to abolish the unequal enrollment of African American children in special education programs (Russo & Talbert-Johnson, 1997, p. 139). With the responsibility to address this issue in the states hands, the pressure ultimately is placed on school staff, psychologists, and test makers…

After reviewing the problem on the literature, conducting the primary research, documenting the outcome, the remaining work is what Martens, (2008) called that the global basis challenges with the demand of recognizing that “addressing issues of power, discrimination, and oppression can play a key role in redressing inequities.” That requires accompanied proof of studies exemplifying possible social change specifically when people who conduct research collaborate with evaluators with the…

retention and decreasing attrition. The information provided in the articles can be utilized across the educational board, without regards to the location of higher education institutions. They are applicable for the community colleges and universities, because there is no educational institution that will not be faced with issues involving retention and attrition. An area that was not addressed in the five articles collectively included how higher educational institutions could acquire…

program called “Oportunidades”. Oportunidades focuses on helping poor families in rural and urban communities invest in human capital (worldbank.org, 2016). Parents have an option to participate in a program that aims to improve their child’s education, health, and nutrition from primary to high school grades. The vision of Oportunidades is to help families in need by investing in their children by providing families with a monetary compensation to send their children to school. The program…

Out of the three topics to write about for this essay, I decided to choose education, the reason choosing so would be because education is the process of sharing knowledge (and wisdom) to the new generations so we can further ourselves as a whole and continue our existence as a species on this planet. I will mostly write what I believe our system has faults with and how the system itself could be improved. While our current system is decent enough to function, it’s not reaching its full…

Education: A National Security Issue with Long-term Impact An issue with long-term national security implications important to my generation is education funding. More specifically, the disproportionate cuts in funding for elementary, secondary and higher education. There are a myriad of topics with national security implications in the headlines daily. These include issues such as climate change, bio-threats, cyber-attacks, transnational crime, and most recently the Syrian refugee crisis.…