HW6: Hirsch summary In the reading “Creating a Curriculum for the American People” by E.D Hirsch, Jr. emphases on his belief that America’s biggest educational problems can be separated in to three categories. First is our low academic achievement relative to other nations; second is our lack of equality of educational opportunity; third our failure to perpetuate a strong sense of loyalty to the national community and its civic institutions. In the excerpt, he lays out his case that a shared base of common knowledge is essential not just reading and comprehension but the functioning of democracy itself. Hirsch describes how the anti-curriculum movement, the dominant school of thought in education became “tragically and unintentionally” an anti-equality movement. A lack of knowledge, both civic and wide-ranging, is the most significant deficit in most American students’ education.
The Great Depression introduced a time of record unemployment, poverty, and unforeseen economic collapse. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration wasn’t that effective in combating the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and his administration put new ideas and programs, called the New Deal, to help the struggling American people and to set a new standard. However, the New Deal was also created to increase the federal government’s power. Franklin D. Roosevelt and administration created the New Deal plan.
He defines readicide as “the systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools (Gallagher, 2009).” In the following article review, “Reversing Readicide,” I will briefly describe four instructional practices that Gallagher (2010) believes lead to the decline of reading, and briefly summarize suggestions for reversing those practices. The first practice leading to a decline of deep readers is that schools develop test takers instead of readers. With an increasing emphasis on state standards and concern for test performance, Gallagher (2010) purports that teachers forsake depth over breadth. Thus, we create students who read in a shallow, surface manner. Surface reading does not create the critical reading skills so necessary for reading and comprehending informational text at the secondary level.
THE SAVAGE INEQUALITIES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NEW YORK The author Jonathan Kozol explained this story very well in detail. The main points the author wanted to explain was he wanted to show how the education system was not fair how it operated, and that money played one biggest issues affecting children’s education. He wanted show the readers what some of the struggles that children who attended unprivileged schools went through education wise. He wanted the board of education know how unfair the system was and made it aware. I believe that Kozol tried to find reasons why was this happening to the schools and at times during the story he tried to show that race was playing a part of the schools stability money and educationally wise.
It has caused us and our next generations loose the balance of the value in our lives. If everyone in the world adopts the Americans’ idea that becoming materialistic or rich is what we want to pursue for live better, only one earth is definitely not enough to support everything we need. It is urgent to bring back the enduring values on faith, family, responsibility, generosity and friendship to guide this country before we can not fix the balance. More importantly, the earth is already become worse than before. The environmental pollution in most countries is really bad, and natural calamities happen frequently.
Initially, President Herbert Hoover was attacked for being ill-advised and his apparent unsuccessful governance. Later, it became more evident that the worst part happened under the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is primarily because with the works done by the said two presidents, people behind the federal administration have intensified their destructive dominance. In short, an increased level of intervention was depicted with Hoover and later Roosevelt dictating their ways to key systems of the government including the nation’s economy. Roosevelt and his “new deal” era paved the way for the revolutionary conversion of the federal government and the country in general.
There was general discomfort and anxiety and I could feel it in this chapter. This impacted my thinking in that I had never before known so redundantly what the people thought about WWII. Normally, students are taught facts about why this group did this against that group or
They lost power, control, and respect as a nation, and the tensions between and with foreign countries and those within America itself persisted long after military attacks were made. Although the economic policies improved under the successes of Kennedy and Johnson, this war was crucial to the downfall of the economy that came in the 1970s. The social tensions still remain prominent today, and it is still a difficult topic of discussion and reflection for most. Politically, the pressures made people more aware and conscious of their decisions. Vietnam helped Americans draw from experience new lessons that drastically reformed the society during the 1960 and 1970s, and called to attention the questioning of beliefs and morals.
In a CBS special, Cronkite concluded, "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past, to say we are mired in a bloody stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion" ( Hallin, 1986, p.170) This did not help increase the support for our troops in Vietnam. The overall support for the war was diminished by Cronkite's report. The negative coverage of the war influenced politicians, the public, and the American soldier. Concerned with losing support, politicians started to really get involved. The TeT offensive was a last ditch effort for the communists.
Through this, our nation’s trust and confidence in our government has severely declined. How can ordinary people like us trust two very different parties with completely different viewpoints to agree and run our country smoothly? It is a hard concept to wrap your finger around. This is why trust in our government has declined. The increased cost of campaigns has also contributed to this