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  Part three of School: The Story of American Public Education has been the most outstanding chapter in the book in my opinion. It puts the reader in a place where you feel as if time is going backwards and honestly, it's scary. It is outrageous that “though The issue of equal educational opportunity remains serious business, virtually no one today thinks of it as an issue that one might have to die for. This was not so five decades ago. In 1950, people had to risk their lives and futures for equal educational opportunities. When Joseph Albert DeLaine filed a lawsuit against local white school officials for not providing school buses for his three children, he understood that the consequences could be fatal. Local white authorities in Clarendon County, South Carolina, home of one of the five consolidated cases that we now  know as Brown V Board of Education, fired him from the little schoolhouse where he had taught for ten years. They also fired his wife, two of his sisters, a...

  In As American as Public School, 1900-1950 massive immigration, child labor laws, and the rappid growth of cities fueled school attendance and completely changed public education. It was noted that 51percent of America’s children graduated from high school, and 40 percent went to college. This was one of the running factors that played a huge role in the transformation of schooling. The second chapter in the book also emphasized on the controversial facts about IQ tests on students, life adjustments, curriculum, and politics. While creating the collaborative group assignment during our zoom session, my partners and I came to the realization that many of our agreements, arguments, assumptions and aspirations were very similar when it came to describing the “Why”. In the first section that explained what we all agreed upon we noticed that Elmoatazbellah and I had the same reflection that actually hit home for us because it was a knowledge that we were both brought up with. David o...

School: The story of American Public Education by Sarah Mondale was published in 2001. It is a compelling odyssey that weaves archival footage, rare interviews and on site coverage into an unprecedented portrait of America's great education experiment. In part one we learn how, in the beginning of the twentieth century, immigration, social status and the growing of cities played a huge role in the alteration of public education as it changed over time. Later in the years education became a component in the confrontation about schooling for minorities. In group four we discussed how the evolution of education has not stopped. We are currently living in the modification, and although it is unfortunate that we must do it in these horrific times of the Covid-19 pandemic it was going to happen sooner or later. From one day to the other school was switched entirely to remote and it has been a challenge for many families. It is distinguishable how only some students can attend and receiv...

Hi Everyone, My name is Genessy Simo, I was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ with Dominican parents. Im 22 years old currently in my Junior year majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in Psychology, my future career goal is to become a Criminal Psychologist. My interest in Criminal Justice came about after seeing my two older sisters chose different paths in studies such as business and medical. While taking Criminal Justice courses and learning about the statistics I became interested in wanting to know the “Why” so it pushed me to become a psychology minor. Im also currently working as a Clerk at Estes Express Lines which is great because I have ample time to do school work.  Growing up my father put a lot of pressure on me with having to do great in school. It was very difficult as a kid being around my cousins that were allowed to play around all day while I had to read a new book every week. At the time I was attending PS#30,  a bilingual school which was also a stru...