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parents, teachers, and students. He pushes the issue on the decline in the educational performance of this country as seen in grade performance and that no one is willing to stop it. Friedman urges parents to take responsibility and demand more from the school systems, teachers, and students who slack off. With the implementation of Logos and Pathos, Friedman taps into the emotion of the readers using fear tactics, and uses experiences with teachers and students to strengthen his case. The…

Deciding to attend college was basically a no brainer for me back when I was in high school. I had a passion to further my education, which would give me the skills to eventually enter the medical field, in which I have high desires to achieve. Receiving a higher education is a necessity to entering the medical field. The fact is, however, even though this was an easy decision for me, it now became a matter of how I would provide the means to fund it. College is an investment, both financially…

government through public schools. These public schools, intended to impart learning for any child in the country equally, has been creating a deep division in success mainly diverged by socioeconomic classes. What is wrong with the current US public education system? What could we do to fix a system that affects almost everyone in the country? Chapter 9 in David and Jack Cahn’s book When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America explains the reasons why the current American public school…

composition of public schools in many major US cities. Immigration induces “native flight,” especially among white natives, from public schools into private schools, thus altering the ethnic, racial and immigrant composition of public schools. The less affluent students of color who remain in the public school system face debilitating repercussions to their livelihoods and quality of life if the number of native born schoolchildren who opt to attend private instead of public schools in response…

identification of what I am calling “leadership straddler’s.” I use a study by Prudence Carter (2006) that desired to challenge the findings by Fordham and Ogbu’s (1986) proposed “acting white” theory by black students in regards to educational performance in schools to inform my idea. Carter focused on how both black and Latino low-socioeconomic (SES) students navigate performance in the classroom juxtapose with peer group interaction. She identified three type of ideological perspective…

racism, providing examples of how society as a whole creates unequal opportunities for children. Being born to a white family in a predominately white community comes with certain advantages. I rarely felt alone in terms of my race. Whatever school I attended, I knew there would be other students, faculty, and staff of my race. There is a comfort that emanates from being with people of the same race. This familiarity is a byproduct of the white privilege all white people carry, even if we…

Light is more than a mere abstract entity that our eyes perceive. It is radiant energy that activates areas of our mind that work to perceive what is actually there in existence. Light represents the truth of what lies in the darkness and a hope for what awaits us in the future. In my life, it represents a passion and outlook towards brighter opportunities and improved education for the youth of America. The light of a brighter future is representative of the right to equal opportunity…

attended school all the way through (Or chose to drop out), or even what part of an area they live in play such a monumental factor in a child’s education. With all the different inequalities in the education system, they all have effects that will occur inevitably such as: lower tax bases for big cities, underfunded schools, overcrowded schools (as a result of schools being…

I thought, “Should a 5 year old even know information like this?” The schools labeled me as advanced and thought I should go to a magnet private school. Knowing my own background, I knew I would have to go that extra mile. I had to catch the “black” school bus then a ”white” school bus every day to and from school because the buses for my school didn’t come to my side of town. I felt out of place. But I think I had fun. I remember the field trips to the petting…

Malcolm X, a great man who inspired many people, was not always an educated man. He had his struggles and inspirations like many other people, but what he did to overcome his struggles, and his self-driven attitude, made him an inspiration to others. Plato was a great philosopher who used inspirational and elaborate methods to describe perseverance. In addition, Plato explains how to pursue difficult obstacles in life to achieve enlightenment. In order to overcome challenges in life, one must be…