Part3

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 receive a good education only because they have access to an electronic or simply internet. Over time we have seen how everything is slowly but surely turning into technology, libraries are becoming of very little use because books are now being purchased as “electronic books”. While reading the book, my partners and I chose three words, three phrases and three sentences that can better explain what the first part was about. We then ranked them in the order as follows, Words:1. Meritocracy, 2. Agriculture, 3. Change, 4. Imperfection, Phrases: 1. Educating All Americans, 2. Physically ejected, 3. Snail Paced Gait, 4. Free of charge, and Sentences: 1. Jefferson didn’t consider the possibility of female genius. 2. For Noah Webster, a teacher in Connecticut, the first step was to eliminate British textbooks from American classrooms. 3. These arrangements meant that family wealth, race, and gender had a strong impact on how much formal education a child received. 4. General education will enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. We chose these words, phrases and sentences because they provide the audience a small picture of what occurred. By ranking them in this order we issue a story that is slowly developing. I chose the image presented above because I felt as though it describes the evolution of education. Here we see a school in the far end as three individuals are moving forward in search for something better per say. It is evident that by the color of their skin the school’s are diverse yet they are seeking for something else. It is the perfect depiction of how schooling does not remain the same, it continues to improve. This image can be a representation of the twentieth century as it can also be one of now. What I mostly like about this picture is that they look determined but most importantly that the female is the one leading. As explained in part 1 of the book, when one city made a modification, others followed. None the less it also goes to show how wrong Jefferson was when he didn’t consider the possibility of female genius.