No Child Left behind Act– Final Tonza Simmons ENG 122 English Composition II Prof. Nancy Segovia May 19, 2014 No Child Left behind Act– Final The No Child Left behind Act is a form of modern day segregation that is providing youth with hopelessness to achieve. This law is a way of holding the disadvantaged hostage to oppression for years to come, due to the lack of education and comprehension skills. I believe that this law was created without really understanding the needs of all children across America. This act was and is more about a political agenda verses the betterment of America's children. Authors, John W. Borkowski and Maree Sneed, Harvard Educational Review, v76 n4 p503-525 Win (2006) suggested, "that there may be some
The Great Depression just ended and more than twenty five percent of the American working force was unemployed. Jobs were scarce and millions needed help just to feed their families. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established several programs designed to help those in need. Today there is another need for welfare reform and the President and Congress cannot agree on what changes need to be made. Along with Immigration, Welfare is one of the hot topics that separate us as a country because there is a stigma that being on Welfare means that you are lazy and do not want to work and a lot of that displeasure is pointed to minorities.
Alabama cannot afford to upgrade their current educational system, although rated among the worst in the nation. Many refute adoption of a state lottery because it is gambling yet embrace other forms such as bingo, or raffles. Gambling is a form of recreation and can provide psychological benefits usually overlooked. Alabama needs to adopt a lottery system to enhance the wealth of the state and fund our needed educational
What's even worse is that the habit of long-term jail sentences in the US has completely wiped out any chance of ever getting a job again for most of these people. "If they are not educated, they don't have a choice anymore. If you can't read at a ninth grade level, you can't get out of poverty” (Payne). When the children where entering the toy store, the first thing that pops out of Sugars mouth is, “Can we steal?”(Bambara). The children would not have to steal objects if their parents had better jobs and better educated.
This law should not have been passed in the first place, since it violates citizen’s right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Many people cannot pursuit to happiness since this law has been passed and some of these people are actually citizens of America. Like how the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with "heavy" or "ungrammatical" accents are no longer allowed to teach English
It is assumed all families understand the necessity for nutrition and healthy habits, such as exercise, especially for growing children. A struggling family that is not allowed to buy white rice, white bread, or processed and already prepared foods gives those few a new perspective and direction for what should be consumed. Children who have to eat fruits and vegetables in school lunches will have a different outlook on what exactly a snack is. First Lady Obama has made a stance on childhood obesity, health and fitness as it pertains to our growing children, who will one day be adults. Practicing what she preaches, a fun fact is the white house garden is the first garden since World War II and Eleanor Roosevelts Victory Garden.
If you do then merit pay simply wouldn't work. “(Gazette, 2009) Basing the teachers’ pay on performance will create a void of experience and excellent school teachers for failing school students. The void will be open for inexperience teachers to work with these students. The losers in this case are the students. “Many states and school districts are finding it increasingly difficult to implement performance pay programs.
The attempt was rejected 56% to 46% by the voters. PROBLEMS: The issues Alabama faces not having a lottery range from lack of education funding to loss of workers. Coming from an Editorial written in the Opelika Auburn News, another major problem is the crossing of state lines by Alabama residents to buy lottery tickets and the fact they are spending their money in Georgia and Tennessee and not in their home state and that is economically depressing. CAUSES: Without the use of lottery funding, the education funding tends to come from a “rainy day” account. This account does not consist of much in the first place therefore the funds also tend to be a lower percentage of an already small budget.
Clifton Lewis POL-107 KGA #2 Linda Lien 07/27/11 Research Paper on Democratic Party In researching about the Democratic Party views towards education, I discovered that the Democratic Party is highly supportive of educating our children in today’s society. Unlike the Republican Party, who agrees with the Bush’s administration, of the old “No Child Left behind Act” which states, that the Bush’s administration didn’t fund the schools and states of the resources required to precede every child of higher education. Also, the Bush’s administration increased the interest of student loans which made it difficult for low income students to go college. The Democratic Party agrees to the following terms which best interest in reshaping our education system and supporting are youth in today’s society. Lower interest rates of student loans and increase Pell grants, reform the “No Child Left behind Act”, investing in early child hood education, and Prioritize “STEM education”.
However even poverty experts say that the proposal is wrong because even well qualified individuals can’t find jobs in this economy. This means that parents with no education, or work experience are expected to find a job within two years or else they will lose government help. There have also been propositions that have already passed in many states to have mandatory drug tests to people who are on welfare. By making mandatory drug tests they are insuring that the money that people on welfare attain is not being used for drugs. Advocates for the poor however, say that if you only test people on welfare, then you are single them out.