viewed as part of a whole; the individual is influenced by socioeconomic and cultural factors as well as by issues related to quality of life in the community. Public infrastructure, clean air, and normative behaviors all have a strong impact on individual decision-making, lifestyle, and attitudes towards health, healthcare, and wellness (Bowen, Barrington & Beresford, 2015; Story, Kaphingst, Robinson-O’Brien, et al., 2008). Nurses also treat patients within the same normative environment; when nurses make lifestyle recommendations for patients, those recommendations are much more meaningful and easier to act on when the patient is supported by community infrastructure and health-seeking paradigms. Community health approaches like the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities projects are grounded in… Continue Reading...
incentive for all high school students to achieve their goals, thereby improving the overall quality of life in the nation.
V. Education should be free for everyone for ethical, financial, and social reasons.
Why Higher Education Needs to Be Free For Everyone
For well over a century, the United States has offered its citizens access to a free public school education. A grade school education was at one point considered sufficient to prepare a person for entry into the job market, or to be equipped with the social and practical skills needed to thrive. Yet a high school education is no longer sufficient. The… Continue Reading...
quality of life in the nation. [3: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, New York: The New York Press, 2010, p. 2). ]
Based on the extensive impact the War on Drugs has on American lives, mass incarceration is a civil rights issue, and a human rights issue. Mass incarceration is not at all a response to increased rates of crime; the notion that crime automatically drives incarceration rates is a myth. Alexander notes that “especially black incarceration rates have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down… Continue Reading...
the insight into how educators make tremendous personal sacrifices beliving in the value of their work in promoting higher quality of life in the society. For example, the author states, “The thoughts of spending $70,000-$100,000 for an education to receive a job in which you make $40,000 a year seems like a losing proposition for many would be education majors.” In spite of the horrendous statistics related to actual job or career outcomes, the field of education proves tremendously rewarding. For example, the Transforming Teaching and Learning site also includes information linked to leadership development among students. I agree that leadership development is crucial for young educators, but also… Continue Reading...
