Landmark Education

recent years, education policies have been progressively shifting towards inclusive education in many countries. As there has been a significant increase of inclusive classroom, educators and families should be educated on the effects of this type of education on children with special needs. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the intensive research that has been conducted on what inclusive education is as well as the history of inclusive education and the benefits of inclusive education. In…

Race Impact on Access to a Higher Education Race has been a segregating issue that weaves all through history starting in the US with slavery before the Civil War. History has stamped anyone who is not a white person with the label of a minority. In 1954, Brown vs Board of education as a huge landmark for the issues of segregation because the US Supreme Court declared state laws that established separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional. (Prins, n.d.) This overturned the…

of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483. This landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This ruling appeared to apply to all minority groups of children as well as the common practiced racial segregation of the current time period. “The Brown decision led the way to a growing understanding that all people, regardless of race, gender, or disability, have a right to a public education.”…

It was intended to help children overcome developmental disadvantages. Head Start was a historically new approach to addressing inequality in education. Compensatory is a term that was used to describe programs to help the poor. Critics say it implies that clients of the programs were somehow deficient and deviant. Culturally deprived is a term that is also objected. It is used to describe poor…

school will take time and money, yet the benefits of achieving higher education or obtaining another degree seem to heavily outweigh any negative aspects. Going back to school will have an impact on your career, your studies, your time, and…

legislative landmarks in the struggle for the equal educational opportunity since this country is born. Among them, we have desegregation, multicultural and bilingual education. These act aimed to help each disadvantaged groups to have the same opportunity to equal education. In 1964 in the USA, the civil right aimed to eliminate job discrimination as well as with education against African American and women. This act in 1968, bilingual Education (Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary…

“Dead Men’s Path “ In today's generation, it's common for individuals to take in rich culture and traditions. Most of the time, individuals do not have the proper knowledge and consider major aspects, like historical events, as "the past". In Michael Obi's case, he does not take in consideration the value, traditions or beliefs when it comes to the historical pathway on the school campus. The short story is about a young man named Michael Obi who is viewed as a modern and determined individual.…

This article provided a very insightful look at the challenges of being a college student coming from a low-income background. Scott Carlson the author provides the reader with real life examples of these challenges and allows the reader to understand his viewpoint on the question “should everyone go to college”. We as a nation are pushing high school students to attend college ready or not, Carlson points out two of the more noticeable reasons for this push to attend college, First being that…

My field is education, specifically, birth through kindergarten and elementary education. Education has had a number of issues in the past; some of them still exist today. To narrow my focus, I looked at a number of articles, online magazines, and electronic journals. These included topics such preschool to kindergarten transitions, teacher assistants and driver’s education classes, being a teacher in your mid-career, school shootings, and using technology in the classroom. The vast majorities…

In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (“Fisher II”), the United States Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the University of Texas’s (“University”) affirmative action policy, and the impact of the Court’s decision is being widely debated. Some commentators fear that the Court is poised to end affirmative action altogether, thus causing reduction in the number of minorities who are admitted to universities across the country. Such concerns are overstated. A careful analysis…