The Equalizer

The antibodies passed while breast feeding can help with ear infections, diarrhea, respiratory infections, and meningitis (DiSanto, 2012). Breast milk is easily digested by a newborns immature digestive system (DiSanto, 2012). Breast milk is always fresh, available and free (DiSanto, 2012). The skin to skin contact during breast feeding can enhance the emotional connection between mother and baby (DiSanto, 2012). DiSanto states there are some disadvantages to breast feeding also. Breast feeding…

To quote Paul Gorski “We talk about education being the great equalizer, yet our poorest students are in the least equipped schools. We don’t need to fix poor people. We need to fix the system” (Teaching Tolerance). Poverty is an increasingly common issue in American public schools and teachers need to know how to respond. There are strategies teachers can employ to help their students and while there are limitations as to what teachers can do there are still realistic ways in which teachers can…

Introduction The achievement gap, which can also be viewed as an opportunity gap, explains the difference in achievement between minority and white students. Indictors of this gap are shown through scores on standardized test, grade point averages, college enrollment and degrees earned. Research shows that the achievement gap can be seen before children even get to kindergarten. The question many people may ask when discussing the achievement gap is why is race synonymous with achievement.…

Al Sharpton, probably the most established contemporary civil rights activist, once said, “How do we make things fair?” This enquiry is important today because things really aren’t fair. Although America has progressed very far when it comes to racism and discrimination, it still has a long way to go. Affirmative action policies are essentially used to combat long term racial failures and promote equality. These policies are aimed to increase the proportion of minorities and women in jobs and…

consequences and without sending any ground troops. Only a few planes were needed to do the trick. It was only a matter of time before another state pursued the same technology and within a few years, the USSR had succeeded. Nuclear bombs became a power equalizer between the two nations. The game had changed now that there were two nuclear weapon states and fear of retaliation became a reason for deterrence. There was no possibility of trial and error with deterrence at the…

The disparity in the achievement between Black and White students is hardly new. Indeed, “closing the Black-White achievement gap would do more to promote equality in the United States than any other strategy presently under discussion” (Jencks & Phillips, 1998. p. 1). This problem, generally referred to as the achievement gap, is a problem that still exists more than 60 years after Brown v. the Board of Education (1954) rendered the separate but equal law illegal and mandated that schools…

Though I have spent most of my life in Georgia, the majority of my family members are from New Jersey. My maternal grandparents come from Bayonne, New Jersey, living in the area until my grandmother, Lois McGlynn, retired. My mother and father moved to Miami, where they lived until they divorced. My mother moved to LaGrange, Georgia, which is where my maternal grandparents, aunts, and uncles moved to after the retirement of my grandmother. My mother and I moved in with my grandparents. Across…

In the book Emile or on the education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher provided a treaty dealing with the art to create perfect good men. Through the life of Emile, a fictive character, the text provides, step-by-step the educational question and how people must be educated in our society. The question of the education has always been a significant issue in our society. According to the dictionary, education is: “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially…

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White Guilt J.C. Watts, a former U.S. Representative, states “I 'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one 's skin color or one 's gender, I think it should be done based on one 's need…” This idea that affirmative action, a societal way of helping those in need, should not be based on ethnicity is supported by esteemed author Shelby Steele. Shelby Steele, the author of “The Age of White Guilt and the Disappearance of the Black Individual”, claims that Blacks have…