The film states that 98% of the families at the school are from lower class areas. The film begins with stunning disturbing statistics about how poorly E.D. Nixon Elementary was doing. The Montgomery school was facing State Government takeover because of extremely poor scores coming from the children. The documentary then introduces Dr. Regina Thompson, the new principal, who turns the school into one of the best low income schools in the state.
She had little reason to be concerned about schoolwork with only two days left in the semester and no finals. The story of Eunice Bates depicts how society has tried to ease the pressures of schoolwork on children. As a result, society has politically corrected themselves into mediocrity. “A Nation at Risk,” a scathing report on the American educational system, was published in
Certain schools that take after the name of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and other honored leaders are not diverse. In the South Bronx, it is very unlikely to find a white student in the classroom and if there is a white student, their presence is a shock or surprise to the other students. In a Seattle district made up of about half Caucasian families, mostly black students occupied the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School. White parents in this district would send their children to a mainly white school. Diverse is just a word that schools throw out to make their school look better and welcoming to every race.
| 34 | Another quote that could illustrate this fourth element: | “ The study determined that among White players there was a 91 percent graduation rate, while Black players had a 59 % rate “ | 35 | Citation: | (Stuart 9) | 36 | Explain how this quote illustrates this fourth element: | The reader will take note of the large gap between White and African- American student-athletes. | | NAYSAYER (Para 6) | 37 | Objection: Imagine someone thinks the article you picked would be terrible for this audience. What problems might they find with the article? | The article at points only seems to address African-American student-athletes. For anyone who doesn't fall into that category will just look past the information provided.
Year-Round Schooling Summer break is great. We all think so. But when you walk into Algebra 1 your first day back at school and the teacher says, “Pop quiz! Lets see what you know!” And that’s the moment when you realize that you don’t remember anything from the previous year. Year-round schooling is a better system than traditional because it’s better for students learning, it keeps kids involved and engaged, and, as much as this might surprise you, it doesn’t mean less vacation time.
In 1930 it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write, there were considered dangerous if they were literate, but even with the law some slave owners still taught slave children to read.10 By the 1860’s only 10% of the African American population were literate. But with the reconstruction era brought state supported schools for white and black children, although they were segregated by race. This is a vast accomplishment for the poor whites and blacks that just a few years earlier had no access to any form of education. 11 For a society of America as a whole it seems that the years from late 1700’s to mid to late 1800’s brought a lot of social change in the school system. I believe that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush sparked the ideas for the future, with Horace Mann as the engineer who created the mold of the two ideas into a whole common idea.
According to Marshak, relationships and personalization are far more important in a child’s life than academics. This may be true, however, the NCLB was formed to help improve all three of these areas as well as make a student’s life more successful. The first identifiable fallacy in this article is a post hoc. This is an assumption that one event causes another although there is no clear connection. Since “50 to 70 percent of students pass through their high-school years without developing a single important relationship with an adult in their school” this causes them to be “disconnected and alienated from
There isn’t a viable reason not to implement it, and the few cons are outweighed by the pros. By using year-round school, both students and teachers would have access to school that is both rewarding and relaxing. A recent study compared sixty-four school variables, such as attendance, grades, discipline, and test scores, among year-round schools and traditional schools. The results showed that fifty-four of the sixty-four tested variables were more prominent in year-round schools (Chaika). If schools just gave the year-round calendar a chance, they are almost guaranteed to love it.
Dropping out is a lot more common than people think it is. Five out of every one hundred students enrolled in high school of October 1999 had dropped out by October of 2000 (National Educational Association). Dropping out is a big dilemma all across the world. On the United States’ drop out problem, in Allen County, Indiana eight to ten percent of their students dropped out in the school year of 2004-2005. Then, in 2006, 23.5% of their students did not graduate (Success in Education).
But, the homes in low-income communities give little money in which these schools receive from property taxes. In results, these schools in those communities end up being poorly funded by the state and cannot afford good supplies or teachers. Strange gives the example of a school in Arkansas that was underfunded. In this situation of Lakeview, there was an uncertified math teacher that taught all the mathematics classes in that high school. However, the teacher only received $10,000 a year for teaching all those classes.