Parochial school

Reform, Susan DeJarnatt (2014), explores the concept of education as public good versus a private good in Philadelphia. She examines the current treeatment of public education as a private good, and opines that the current themes of privitization, school choice, and accountability metrics by standardized high stakes testing, fails to incorporate the “democratic equality” (DeJarnatt, 2014). She paraphrases Diane Ravitch, that the focus on education as private good, “turns students and families…

Education and citizenship are always interdependent, since a citizen always needs to be educated. Citizenship education is defined as educating children, from early childhood, to become clear-thinking and enlightened citizens who participate in decisions concerning society; society here represents “in the special sense of a nation with a circumscribed territory which is recognized as a state”. After I read Hannah Arendt’s article The Crisis in Education, I believe that there are four major…

Imagine a fourth-grade student that does not have a consistent home. The food the school provides at breakfast and lunch is the only ration of food they receive for the day. Snow days are agonizing not knowing if they will have food for that day and hoping to return to school only to eat. Students are beginning to notice that they wear the same two shirts and pants to school every day, and exclusion from groups of friends is evident. Teachers send the student habitually to the nurse to get…

a swarm of emotions. The two authors Malcolm Gladwell and Annie John describe the obstacles two characters overcome to accomplish their personal goals. “Marita is the main character of “marita’s bargain” and is troubled by the rigor of her middle school KIPP academy. Annie is the main character of a “walk to the jetty” who is completely frustrated with the familiarity of her home life so much so that she wishes to move to a foreign country and train to become a nurse. Even though, Annie is not…

School uniforms have been a blazing debate for centuries. There are many ideas about what a school wardrobe entails. Despite the controversy, school uniforms are beneficial because they promote good attendance and graduation rates, safety for the entirety of the student body, discipline and school pride, and break down social and economic barriers. There is more to consider on this hot topic about why school uniforms are in reality beneficial to a school’s well-being. For example, attendance and…

Urban school districts have been making the switch to school uniforms at an ever increasing rate. Meanwhile, suburban school districts have been slower to make the move to uniforms, often citing that the benefits achieved from uniforms are restricted to high poverty urban areas. According to The National Center for Education Statistics website (https://nces.ed.gov), “Between the 2003–04 and 2011–12 school years, the percentage of public schools reporting that they required that students wear…

author Curtis Steinfield. And yes, without a doubt, I know before I reach page fifty, how the book will end. True there is always a teen age girl at the center of each book who ends up finding herself once she has traversed the ins and outs of a high school romance. However, for some reason I am always sucked in by how the author describes the interactions between the characters on pages 50 through 350. For there is no question, each book finishes with the same phase, “the end.” Ah, but, it is…

I grew up in a small church, where my mom was a Sunday school teacher and my dad was the Assistant Pastor. They also were involved in the youth a lot. Growing up, I can remember driving down the road on our way to church and seeing kids that knew or my mom knew and we would ask them if they wanted to go to church with us. Next thing you knew, we have like 5-6 local kids going to church with us. I can remember when we use to ask them where they lived so we could make sure that it was alright with…

One of the most prevalent differences between cultures seems to be how the youth are educated. Concerning the kinds of material taught, the methods used to produce learning, and the relationship between students and teachers, education varies extensively from culture to culture. After reading Abubakari Lunna’s life story regarding his drumming education, it is evident that the way people present themselves has a lot to do with how we develop relationships with others. While I have heard of…

Should We Stop Child Labour? (Opinion Paper) How would you feel if you ever had to see your 7 year old brother or sister going to work instead of school? In today’s society teenagers or kids usually whine about how much work they did around the house when in reality they only did a bit. They usually don’t think about the kids that are forced in to labouring for many different purposes and cant whine about it because they won’t get there pay or they would get beaten. Have you ever thought why…