Ze Wei Jacky Luo Section 1 10/07/09 Final Draft The hardship of Cosmopolitanism Conversations are the most important tool for people to express themselves to others. In Chapter two of “Cosmopolitanism Ethics in the world of Stangers” written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he points out that every culture, every society has its own view on what is correct or not. Appiah argued that positivism and relativism is not a way to encourage communications, because the idea of cosmopolitanism is that everyone in form of one community respect and share their ideas with each other. Appiah believe if everybody on this world are open minded and trying to lead everyone from different culture perform as a global citizen. Appiah also mentions that positivism had driven by two fundamentally kinds of psychological states, which are beliefs and desires. Both of them have different “direction of fit.” said Elizabeth Anscombe.
Grading in Special Education by Susan M. Brookhart looks at a different grading strategy. She thinks students in special education need to be graded based upon their goals in their Individual Education Plan's (IEP). Brookhart expresses that grading students in special education at a lower level then everyone else is unfair to both students in special education and to those not in special education. This is an interesting article/book for parents to read because it gives them some ideas of questions to bring up to their child's case mangers on different ways to grade their children in special
This is simply “viewing people’s behavior form the perspective of their own culture” (Schaefer, 2012, p. 54). As Americans, most of us are proud of our culture and what we believe. However, this does not mean that just because another culture chooses to live their lives differently, they are somehow “wrong”. It also does not make the way we live “right”. While the Nacrima’s practices seem strange to us, as Miner has written about them, cultural relativism is an important practice in our daily lives.
Lean On Me “Because you are failing to educate them, this is the posture that many of our students will wind up in. Only they'll be staring down the barrel of a gun!” According to Joe Clark of East Side High School, education is the essential key in this 1989 school from New Jersey. Today, here at Northeast High School, we are being named a ‘persistently low achieving school’ by the federal government. When juxtaposing the two schools, one will be able to look deeper into the structures of failing schools. Furthermore, by examining the actions taken to improve, the culture and location, and laws of the two schools, one possibly might be able to help improve school scores.
Critique of “Will Your Jobs Be Exported” by Alan S. Blinder Starting in elementary school teacher’s begin to prepare you for standardize testing. You learn all this material, and test on it, learn the material… and the cycle continues. Kids who cannot test well drop out or fail and are looked down on by society , kids who succeed pass and continue on and are praised, the question is does that particular style of learning come in handy when all the American people jobs are being exported. According to an article in The Atlantic news paper “53% of recent college graduates are jobless or unemployed” so in the end are we not all equal? When all the jobs of the future go to personal service jobs, will American children only know how to test or fail or to invest all their time into schooling for professions that will not pay?
Others may choose to join interest groups as a means of expressing and exercising their views. Some may even get a tattoo to show the world what they stand for. The way you choose to express yourself is a personal choice, but in every society there are social norms and cultural standards that say how, when, and where to express ourselves. One of the most appealing things about America is our constitutional right to freedom of expression. The right of expression has been a source of debate, when deciding what forms of expression are suitable and acceptable in our society.
After reading the article I understand that content integration in the curriculum is only the first dimension of multicultural education. Students come to school with prejudices toward different groups and that is why all teachers, whether you teach math or social studies, should be sensitive to that matter and work towards reduce prejudice in their classrooms and school and create a more positive racial attitude among the students. It is in the hands of educators to encourage students to become more critical readers and thinkers, and help them understand the values that underline knowledge. Students need construct their own knowledge and think for themselves. Teachers need to help students understand the implicit cultural assumptions and perspectives of the discipline they’re teaching.
Key Points The article “Mid-Columbia schools try to beat student forgetfulness” by Jacques Von Lunen primarily focuses on how teachers and schools alike are aiming to prevent students’ “learning backslide” that occurs from summer break. Principal Niki Arnold of Eastgate Elementary School in Kennewick commented that students could lose between four and six weeks’ worth of learning during summer vacation (Von Lunen, 2011). Interestingly, studies have shown that students from lower-income families fell behind even more. (Von Lunen, 2011). Due to this significant drop in learning, students are often at different intellectual levels and teachers have to be creative in coming up with solutions to combat this.
Both play an important role in making a person into a talented individual and a member of a society. High school students know that there are differences between high school and college, but sometimes what they think is not how it is. High School can be considered as a continuation of elementary and middle school where students learn trigonometry, physics, American history, etc. By law, it is necessary and they are forced to attend High School. There are rules and regulations which students cannot break, because there will be punishments for their actions.
Freedom is the main difference between high school and college but, classes, teachers, social aspects and costs are the major ways that college differs from high school. In high school, your teachers tell you what to do and how to act in school but, at home you have your parents who generally make sure that you did your homework and studied for tests. Your time was pretty much managed for you. In college you are on your own, being responsible is just one of the many qualities a student should have to maintain progress. As far as being mature and determined.