Payne stated that students should learn the “hidden rules” of the middle class from their educators so that they have another set of rules to use if they choose to do so. Impoverished students, compared to students of middle or upper class, often have a lack of proper funding, thus, a lack of appropriate resources to use in their education. Due to this, they are often unprepared for school, not having the money to purchase books and other educational tools. Both authors realize this, but argue that the responsibility lies on different shoulders. Payne states that impoverished students face inequality at school, insinuating that the school should be responsible for helping to provide for these students so that they can have a better education.
Although this novel should be taught to high school students there are people that oppose teaching the book because of its crudeness and inappropriateness. Students’ parents often object to their child reading this book but the parents and students need to realize that this book is reality. During the time period that this book was written nearly every white person owned slaves. Luckily, however, our society today has grown away from slavery and this book enforces the history of our country and the history of slavery and racism. Twain even shows Huck’s sensitive side toward African Americans when Huck says, “I wouldn’t done
Professor Richard Alba of the University of New York asked a group of Harvard students about what they thought about assimilation. The majority had negative thoughts about it. He states “The Assimilation era is now condemned for the expectation that minority groups would inevitably want to shed their own cultures, as if they were old skins no longer possessing any vital force, and wrap themselves in the Anglo-American culture” (pages 1-2). That’s how many people see assimilation today, even if it isn’t a popular term anymore. Another thing that makes assimilation bad is the fact that people use it so much that they don’t see that it could be a danger in the future.
This lack of knowledge is even more important than most people realize. A content-rich core curriculum is the only viable remedy. I, too, believe there is a degree of irony within Hirsch’s claims. He believes the progressive movement is responsible for movement away from academics. In turn, it has caused a lowering of standards, which has had its greatest impact on minority students.
In the chapter from “Jim Crow’s Children” the author describes the fear on the part of white people that “educated blacks were likely to aspire to more than plantation life” (Irons, 2002 p 3). Keeping them away from education allowed whites to sustain the lowered expectations that blacks were only fit for manual labor. Even today, by controlling and perpetuating society’s stereotypes that certain groups of people “don’t belong” it keeps many from even attempting to access education. Even though people of color are now “constitutionally” given access to education, there are still pervasive thought patters of lowered expectations that keep many from seeking
African Americans were stated, as “one fifth of a white person” segregation was a huge part of African Americans lifestyle they were openly seen as less important then white people. Blacks and whites were separated either is school or neighborhood which made the matter worst then it already was. Education was one of the weaknesses in African American schools as they received poor education. For Black people to actually get somewhere and make a difference to how they were treated they needed education mainly as a lot of things relied on that. Booker T Washington believed education was the key.
It is a known fact that having a high school diploma can determine whether or not an individual is able to gain some type of employment. The lack of education is one of the main issues that contribute to minorities’ incarceration rate. Hammond, (2000) believes, “there is a real crisis with high number of minority young males, who drop out of school and wind up incarcerated”. The lack of education ultimately results in low skills and lack of employment. According to the American Academy of Political & Social Science, “America’s prisons and jails have become repositories for high school dropouts, thereby obscuring the degree of disadvantage faced by black men in the contemporary United States and the relative competitiveness of the U.S. workforce”.
They were still not granted equal rights, but society was opening up new doors for them in order to have their labor done for them. The unfortunate part about the reconstruction period for the African Americans is they were still put at a disadvantage. Even though they were told to be given the opportunities to work, many of them wouldn’t get the jobs because they were uneducated or illiterate. Many white southerners noticed these disadvantages and came up with a social
Comparing Mexico, Mexico itself had inner conflicts; they did not just immigrate to USA because of unemployment, but other reasons such as education, poverty. Even the film Bienvenido! demonstrates how Latin American countries contain internal problems in education. The primary schools would rather focus on distributing resources to “promising” students, which is extremely discriminatory. All students have equal rights, but they do not get the chance.
He expresses about how the government concerns about the middle class going into university in greater numbers rather than the working class, the politicians believe there is some unfairness in this situation therefore they have started to stop inflowing cash to those universities that fail to take on lower class applicants. He believes that this is a damaging policy occurring because he thinks politicians fail to recognise that there is difference in intelligence between class for example intelligent parents produce intelligent children. He assumes that’s middle class people he’s been associated with have been middle class and are intelligent. However there are some critics of innate intelligence in this circumstance intelligence is fixed, the critique for this would be IQ tests cannot tell us how much potential a person has. People with low IQ can go on to succeed great things in life.