President Obama provided examples by letting the audience know that a decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. He also provided information on how Americans have been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. President Obama is making appeals to the American citizens to come together to help each other he states in his speech no single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future. President Obama is letting the American citizens know that things are changing and we the people need to change also.
Another case, known as the Bolling v. Sharpe case, was also combined when taken to Supreme Court. For a while nobody would step up and initiate a case in the District of Columbia. The role was finally taken by Barbershop owner, Gardner Bishop. On September 11th, 1950 Bishop led a group of African students to a white high school. He demanded enrollment of these kids and argued that the school was clearly big enough for 11 more students.
Kaylea Maskel March 2, 20121 English 101 Michelle Bush Literary Analysis In Amy Goldwasser’s writing “what’s the matter with kids today?” She argues the mass media view on kids and the internet and technology however she agrees that nothing is actually the matter with kids today. Goldwasser states that once adults and any other critics stop treating the internet as a villain, we all can accept it. Teenagers today read and write for fun, spending nearly 16.7 hours a week online (Goldwasser 237). More than 33 million Americans are affluent in texting, emailing, blogging, and IMing, INCLUDING OLDER AMERICANS. In Goldwasser’s eyes “teenagers have the potential to become the next great voices of America.” Before the written works even begin, there is a bolded response answering the title, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” Goldwasser’s response is as follows: Nothing, actually.
Patrick Winters 3/20/15 Research Paper Proposal “I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.” John W. Gardner. Since the early 1980’s the United States Department of Education has pushed a mandate that required states to raise the standardized test scores of students in public schools. This headlong rush to improve the “numbers”, that so-called experts have determined is the only true measure of student success or failure, has had the effect of substantially watering down, or “dumbing down” the curriculum being taught in American public schools. So what factors are influencing this decades long trend that has educators teaching a curriculum that is often described as, “a mile wide, and a foot deep”, and will this lowering of standards in order to produce desired statistical outcomes result in American public schools producing students who are significantly less intelligent, both cognitively and content wise, than both American students of past generations and their peers from around the globe? The paper will examine this question from three different perspectives.
Matthew Thompson Dr. Mirtz Writing 101 18 September 2012 Analysis of “What's the Matter with Kids Today?” Amy Goldwasser the editor of RED: Teenage Girls in America wrote an argument published in an online magazine on teenage kids reading and writing abilities. She challenges people who have similar paradigms as Doris Lessing who stated “young men and women... have read nothing knowing only some specialty, for instance, computers.” Goldwasser's argument stems from the phone survey of 1,200 17 year olds, conducted by the Common Core research organization which claimed young people today live in “stunning ignorance.” The survey consisted of multiple choice questions from a test administered by the federal government in 1986.In Goldwasser's opinion It could possibly be the older generation that the internet has seduced into the inanities of leveling charges based on fear, ignorance, and old media. The overall argument of the piece was that teenagers today have adapted a newer way of taking in information that allows them to read and write for fun, but nevertheless are they are still reading and writing. She backs the argument with facts about the amount of time teens spend each week reading and writing online. The number was 16.7 hours a week.
Facts: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schempp, Unitarian in religion, brought a complaint against the Abington School District in Pennsylvania because their children were required to listen to ten Bible verses read each morning, followed by a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. Teachers were required to participate in the exercise under threat of losing their jobs, while students were required to stand at attention for the reading. No comments were made following the verses. The Schempps held that the Pennsylvania law was unconstitutional, as they believed the statute violated the 1st Amendment Establishment clause stating, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled just one year earlier in Engel v. Vitale (1962), that even non-sectarian generic prayers were unlawful and in violation of the Establishment Cause of the 1st Amendment. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Schempp case combined with the Murray v. Curlett case together as a once and for all means of settling the issue of Bible reading and prayer in public schools.
Jennifer Roach American Systems 11/1/11 Abington School District v. Schempp Abington School District v. Schempp was a court case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court. It originated in February 27-28 1963, when Edward Schemmp, a resident of Abington Township, Pennsylvania sued the Abington School District for allowing the enforcement of the Pennsylvania law that it was involuntary to have his children listen and even read parts of the bible alongside their public education. This law stated that "[a]t least ten verses from the Holy Bible [be] read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day." Schemmp argues that this law violates his rights along with his children’s rights according to the first and fourteenth amendments. Only four other states made a 25 minute class every morning reading at least ten verses of the Bible.
This new law omitted access to education, prompting a growing debate about the Government's continuing tolerance of discrimination against disabled children and young people. The 1996 Education Act. This law repeated the qualified integration duties of the 1993 Act and consolidated a mass of other education legislation in one major, new Act. 1997 Excellence for all children: meeting special educational needs. Four months after sweeping to power, the new Labour Government published this far-seeing Green Paper on special education and gave major support for all mainstream schools to become much more inclusive.
No Child Left Behind Act: Educational Epiphany or Epic Failure Amanda Phillips Western Governors University No Child Left Behind Act: Educational Epiphany or Epic Failure No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was designed by the Bush administration to reduce the "learning gap" between different groups of students and to ensure better teacher equality. However, it sets forth a method of measuring "Adequate Yearly Progress" which aims at 100% proficiency in 10 years time (from the start of the program) (CEP, 2004). As schools struggle to meet the act's impossibly high goals, many incentives to keep underperforming students out, or to hold those already in the school back present themselves. The primary objective
Daniel Alekhuogie Professor Fozouni English 101 September 7, 2012 Should all Americans have the right to healthcare? 46.3 million People in the U.S were uninsured in 2008 according to the U S Census Bureau .In 2007, healthcare expenditures totaled $2.2 trillion 16.2% of the U S economy .Healthcare is the largest industry in the U S employing more than 14 million people .Proponents of the right to health care argue that it would stop medical bankrupsies, improve public health ,and reduce overall healthcare spending .They say that no one in the richest nation on earth should go without health care .A June 12 – 16 2009 poll shows that 64% of Americans say healthcare should be a right .Opponents argue that using tax