This chapter was very interesting because most to the stuff that was mention in this chapter was brought up in class and through group presentation we were able to get a bit more in depth. The education system has evolved in so much way that what education was back then is no long what it is today. Many factors have play a part in what the education system is today. From the civil rights movement to migration of different cultural has play it part in how the system is managed today. The thing that caught my attention is how the civil rights movement affected the education system. The Major case that abolishes segregation in school was Brown vs Board, the court agreed that segregation in school was unconstitutional and which led to a major change in the education system as we know it. Now that schools were desegregated the learning environment changed from everyone. Now schools had to cater to all ethnicity.
Question: Is segregation in school today a fault of students? (is segregation in school today brought about by students)
Chapter 14 to me was basically talking about how each cultural has impacted the education system. The struggle that each cultural had to face to be consider equal and so to acquire an education that is not total bias to one cultural. The chapter explored languages being thought in schools and cultural programs being add to the school curriculum. Teaching from an Afrocentric, Native American, Mexican American or Puerto Rican perspective creates a view of the world different from that of a white Anglo American protestant culture. Anglo believed that involving all those culture into curriculum will change the mind set of students’ view of the world, especially the whites. Anglo was highly in disagreement of involving all those cultural background into the education system because they didn’t want it to affect the views of how society was portrayed to the white students (addressing issues of racism). Also with the new movement in education, women fight for the right to obtain an education. Women want access to the same curricula, examination, teaching staff and school of just as males to better improve themselves.
As discuss in class: Do you think that the children to accelerate better in school if boys and girls are being thought separately? Where boys are being taught in separate classroom from girls would have a better outcome for both genders.
I have posted link: Trouble with boys which is an article about why boys are failing in today education system. http://www.newsweek.com/2006/01/29/the-trouble-with-boys.html
