Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

order to protect these ideals, it is crucial to understand the challenges that this system will face due to the weakness that come from it. It is has become the only form of government that ensures security for its citizens by protecting their natural rights which has constructed these principles…

as an educational institution and offers a MSW program that is predominantly online. I attended Thomas Edison State University over the past two and a half years and earned my bachelor’s degree online. Once I made the decision to continue my education, I searched for MSW programs that were available online as well; since Rutgers is close to my residence and offers an excellent online master’s degree program, it is well suited for my educational needs. 1a- Personally, I have attended…

in genetic background, occupation, socialization, and marriage. Affiliation within a division of caste is based on birth. Marriages are mandatory within a caste, education is based on the caste, occupation is strongly determined by caste, and mobility is impossible. The United States class system is mobile, marriages are mobile, education obtainable, and the structure of the class is determined by various factors with complete mobility to move within other classes. Discrimination is prevalent in…

Democracy, in which our Founding Fathers proudly introduced as the foundation of our government, is constantly protected and expanded (or at least attempted) by our Presidents. For example, during the Cold War when communism threatened democratic ideology, the U.S. responded with a “containment” policy to protect democratic peace. Recently, however, the same ideology that our generations of leaders sought to protect, is going through a slow but steady decline, with low voter turnouts and…

Many teenagers and young adults do not know what political parties are and what these parties support in relation to certain issues and aspects. In America, there are two main political parties people would associate themselves as: Republican or Democrat. They are referred to as Conservatives and Liberals respectively. Both parties are similar, yet diverse by their opinions on economic, international, and socialism issues. For instance, both the Republican and Democratic parties have a different…

Reflection: Goals of Multicultural Education Teachers use a wide variety of methods to ensure they are providing quality education for all students, but they are presented with challenges every day. Diversity, difficulty, disability, dichotomy and differences are some of the few. Planning for student achievement is an important mission that needs constant revision and adjustment. Learning, nor teaching is easy in today’s society. We are a multicultural country, with families coming into our…

Benjamin Franklin was born to a large family, at a young age he was taken out of school to work. Looking back at this later, he regrets his lack of formal education. His abhorrence to the field of work he was placed in allowed him a realm of discovery to find a field that better suited him. Olaudah Equiano was a young boy happily living in a tribal part of Africa. Equiano was uprooted from all that he knew, he writes that he had been “the greatest favourite of his mother, and was always with…

the importance of individual liberty. The state must be legitimate as it is responsible for collecting the taxes that take care of the human needs of its…

See Table 1. Literacy and education are fundamental to moving out of poverty. In the article, ‘They didn’t tell me anything’: Women’s Literacies and Resistance in Rural Mexico, draws from ethnographic case studies, the article explores the issue of women’s access to education and literacy, by examining the experiences of four women in rural Mexico. The common theme in these personal stories is one of…

their British cousins and entitled to the same liberties. But when Parliament passed laws that violated colonists' "inalienable rights" and ruled the American colonies without the "consent of the governed," colonists concluded that Britain was the land of tyranny and not of freedom. The Declaration sought to restore equal rights by rejecting Britain's oppression. These rights that were passed affected women’s equality in different ways, and they will be explored. Before the Declaration of…