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Another way American education reinforces racism is by favoring white culture in general. Some of the ways schools indoctrinate students into the superiority of European/white culture is via favoring white communication styles, thinking styles, and overall approaches to learning. The author also shows what the consequences of these values are, and how it impacts the entire life trajectory of individual students. The effects have long-term ramifications for the American economy and society, too, as successive generations of African Americans are systematically thwarted from serving in positions of power in any field. For… Continue Reading...
learning while others trod the new path towards a uniquely African American educational landscape with the development of the historically black colleges and universities (DuBois, 1994).
Education has played a major role in African American culture, in terms of collective identity construction, self-definition and empowerment, and also economic improvement (Allen, 1992). The emphasis on education as a means of collective and individual empowerment has also led to significant decreases in scholastic achievement gaps over the past several generations (Thernstrom & Thernstrom, 1998). Overall educational levels are comparatively high among African Americans who do pursue higher education, by some measures… Continue Reading...
this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…so unconsciously (Park & Judd, 2005).
The American education system also plays a big role in shaping the identities of the students that go through it. Children of migrants tend to align their ideas more with the mainstream American ideas than their migrant parents do after they go through the American education system. It is noteworthy that the school system in the United States has taken lots of steps to make education more equal for all people no matter their backgrounds.
While legal status still plays a big role in education outcomes, many states such as California,… Continue Reading...
American Education
There are many issues with America’s schools. Whether it is the fact that American students lag behind others in math and science or the fact that high school graduates can hardly spell, something somewhere is wrong. What happened over the past century? One hundred years ago an eighth grade test looked like a fourth year college exam today. Standards have clearly fallen—but why?
Why America’s Schools are Failing Their Students
Maybe it’s the method. Maybe it’s theory. Maybe it’s the system overall, which has been dumbed down to… Continue Reading...
Part 4
The importance of expertise has important implications for education researchers. According to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Code of Ethics, education researchers must demonstrate the highest level of professional competence in the tasks they undertake (AERA, 2011). This essentially means that the work they produce must be credible and accurate. As education researchers rely on the work of others, they must obtain information from reliable (peer-reviewed) sources, not secular sources such as newspaper articles. Information from secular sources may often be biased, hence misleading. Though peer-reviewed sources are usually reliable, they must also be evaluated for credibility. This can be achieved by… Continue Reading...