Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sex education is a huge part of everyone’s life growing up because we all need to understand what it is and what consequences we can get by doing something we are not sure of. But some might take it to a far extent that children do not need to know. Some teachers even start teaching kids too early. Children do not start getting hormones until about twelve and some start learning around nine and that is too early. So many different things can happen when having sex education because they can…

Gender-biased vs. gender-neutral education Gender roles remain strong in education, as children are often treated and taught differently depending on their biological gender. Not only does this promote the gender gap and stereotypical gender roles, but it also tends to exclude those who do not identify as their assigned or any gender. Lately, these issues have been recognized and addressed and alternatives are being thought of. Some small steps towards gender-neutrality have also been taken.…

Introduction to Franco Franco is a four and a half year old Latino cisgender male in the Early Childhood Education program at Beach Court Elementary School in Denver. (Early Childhood Education, also known as “ECE” is what Denver Public Schools call pre-school or pre-kindergarten) He is very small, short and young looking for his age, to the point that when I first met him I thought he was too young to be my client and assumed he was the younger sibling of someone else. Franco is well groomed…

unjustified prejudices against them. Such is the case with Benjamin Franklin’s, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America.” He writes this essay with subversion because if he…

Background: Ms. Benalcazar contacted the Lawrence Public School District Early Childhood Division with a referral concerning her twin sons (Asher and Benjamin); although she was concerned about both boys, her main concern centered on Benjamin. Ms. Benalcazar was concerned about both Asher and Benjamin Benalcazar-Gioroux performance at preschool. Both boys have attended Hilltop Preschool on the University of Kansas campus on a daily basis. According to the mother, last year, Hilltop made a…

Before digging deep into the theory of Ecocriticism, a study of the preceding feminist approaches is essential in order to figure out their insufficiencies that made the fail to adequately address certain fundamental features of the mutual oppression of women and nature, which eventually led to the emergence of the theory of Ecocriticism as an inclusive theory to overcome such deficiencies. In "Dismantling Oppression: An Analysis of the Connection Between Women and Animals", Lori Gruen gives an…

excellent education. And yet, less than half of American school kids are proficient in the core subjects of math, science, and reading for their respective grade levels. Despite the implementation of countless relief programs, namely George Bush 's "No Child Left Behind" act of 2001, children are failing in school, dropping out, and no improvement in test scores can be seen. The US Department of Education is awarded millions of dollars annually to put toward saving our kids from a mediocre…

but not solve math problems. Theories of Intelligence shaped early childhood education and child development by studying children and their intelligence. It allows us to see that children have different thought processes and that they can be talented in one way but not another. It helps show how children should be educated and teaches us that some of the tests children take, like the SAT, have nothing to do with education but with the working…

The Toleration is a letter concerning toleration and as the title suggests it is about religious toleration. French Protestants were being persecuted and in this essay, Locke argues for the separation of church and state and that idea was powerfully influential on many later thinkers including the founders of the American Constitution Locke later wrote a book that greatly influenced education. In this book," Some Thoughts Concerning Education," lock discussed education among the youth. Locke…

Introduction Prior to the Bilingual Education Acts Prior to the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, the U.S. government had a change in attitude towards bilingualism and bilingual educations. At times, there was this permissive attitude that allowed teaching through the mother tongue acceptable. As long as it was within the jurisdiction of local towns and districts, schools were allowed to teach in the child’s native language. However, there were times in which higher authorities were strongly…