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  Part 4 of School: The story of American Public Education'' was titled The Bottom Line in Education and cove red between 1980 to the present day. As a whole, my group members and I came together one last time to discuss the final chapter of School . By doing so we decided to use the word, phrase and sentence strategy in order to depict a better understanding of the chapter. Throughout the process, we ranked our words as exit, alliance and importance. We chose to place them in this order because it exemplified how the evolution of education was coming to an end although it was very important to those involved. It was evident that the political alliance of business leaders, public officials, and educators have succeeded in standardizing the academic curriculum and requiring it of all students. It is important not only to families but also to faculty members that children receive the education they need. It has also been noted that American schools are working more towa...

  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...