The most important insight that James Tierney shared with the class is that Maine is in “big trouble”. In the first two minutes of Tierney’s speech he reiterated that point multiple times. I would agree with Tierney, Maine is in troubled times. The states average age keeps getting higher and higher. Maine is also one of the whitest states in the country. Tierney's insight on how to fix this problem was something that I agree with. To fix the demographic issue, we need to have an open sign, but as Tierney said, Mainer's hate change. The big issue I see is that diversity is not taught in schools. I came from Lee Academy so I had a different experience than most high school students in Maine. Lee Academy is private school that boards students from over twenty countries. Most people in Maine did not have my experience where I was around diverse groups of people on a daily basis. Diversity and appreciation of other cultures is something that Mainer's need to learn to do, otherwise we are giving a solution to our problems away to our fellow states.
One connection between the course and presentation by James Tierney’s was how Maine’s average age is increasing and its ethnicity is predominantly white. These two points have been reiterated multiple times throughout the past two weeks. Maine's rising average age is a primary reason for Maine's economic problems. Another concept the course has talked about a lot is how the students graduating in Maine just don't want to stay in the state. It shouldn't be something to laugh about, but many people have heard the notion that Maine's number one export is their youth. The last connection between the course and the presentation is that Maine is one of the easiest states in the country to get elec...
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... they hate change. You would think that the people in Maine would be more intelligent than that, but from my basketball experience, every Asian player we had was called some of the worst names possible. I can even remember one experience where one of my teammates cried after he was called something in which I will not say. Overall, I believe that Tierney shared one important notion that will help me with my blog and that is Mainer’s hate change. Change however, can be a solution to the welfare problem. This state desperately needs jobs and if bringing in immigrants can be a solution, then this state should be on its hands and knees begging for immigrants. Who knows, it could be possible that some of the immigrants or even their children that immigrate to Maine could potentially be entrepreneurs and that would be something that certainly could turn this state around.
4) In Rose Place the segregation needs to stop polluting the community, it goes beyond a racial hate but also an economic disparity. Integration at Jackson Smith elementary school is important not only for the minority students, but also for the students who have always attended that school. They can learn from each other and begin to understand how the world around them functions, they will have to work with others from all different types of life. By excluding a select group of students, the community is stunting their ability to achieve a greater life then what they are currently living in. “Isolation by poverty, language, and ethnicity threatens the future opportunities and mobility of students and communities excluded from competitive schools, and increasingly threatens the future of a society where young people are not learning how to live and work effectively across the deep lines of race and class in our region.” (Orfield, Siegel-Hawley, & Kucsera, 2011, p. 4). Through teachings, meetings and ongoing work this community could learn to open their doors to allow others in giving them the opportunity to become more effective members of society and hopeful helping squash out the remaining remnants of racial
Carnevales’ main point was on the flaws of the National Bureau of Labor Statics (BLS) and how it does not give full information or data. In fact, Carnevale says that “The BLS education demand numbers, ranging from designation of college and non-college to their failure to reflect rising education
The New England Aquarium’s foray into diversity was tumultuous and administrators learned lessons the hard way. Despite the early problems administrators faced with the minority youth programs, the needs of both parties were eventually addressed. The aquarium was reaching communities they hadn’t before while young people experienced meaningful job opportunities. Problems within the structural frame were present but I’m confident that the work Rosa Hunter was doing would lead them to eventually restructuring, finding easier ways to communicate and working as a group to reach their mission.
Roark, James L., Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, Alan Lawson, Susan M. Hartmann. Understanding the American Promise, Volume I, Chapter 14. Bedford/ St. Martin’s.
Over the semester I have done a great deal of listening, reading, reflecting, and a good bit of talking as well. I realized early on in this course that in order to look toward the future, I had to dig through the past. I began by examining myself and the looking into the history of the independent school movement. I examined my own feelings about race and privilege, the founding of Rocky Mount Academy (RMA), and spoke with Tony Shanks, RMA’s first Black student. I came to the conclusion that in order to shape the future of RMA, I must accept who I am, examine the history of the school, and proactively transform who we were into who we can become. I believe we should continue to strive to be the finest school in Rocky Mount by providing the best education to students regardless of race, religion, class, or economic status. Although I still have more to learn and more to do as an educator, I feel I have begun an important journey to help me be a part of a transformation at my school.
The first chapter of Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis, written by Robert D. Putnam, started off with numerous accounts of the lives, community and environment that students of the Port Clinton’s high school graduating class of 1959 experienced. As a consequence of the social and economic diversity from the class of 1959, each person underwent a contrasting biography. Nonetheless, most of the people from the class of 1959 still had similar elements in their lives that greatly affected their life outcomes and their journey to the end result of their lives.
One attempt made to correct this failure was the permanent desegregation of all public schools across the country. In the celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education all public schools were integrated with both races. Before this integration there were all white and all black schools. This was in favor of the idea of “separate but equal”. But, it was proven by the “woeful and systematic under funding of the black schools” things were separate but rarely equal. (Source 9) As a solution to this,it was decided that a fully integrated society began with the nation’s schools. (Source 9) Two years after one of the first integration of schools at Little Rock, Effie Jones Bowers helped desegregate the nearby school, Hall High School. The students were put into an all white school like at Central High School. According to one of the students, they were faced with vio...
Fayetteville Public High School was the first Arkansas High School to publicly announce it would be integrated. On May 22, within a week following Brown vs Board of Education, Fayetteville announced its intention to desegregate, and, three months later, white and black students were attending the same local high school together.(Deaf) The decision to integrate saved the district five-thousand dollars a year, funds that were normally spent on bussing, board and tuition at distant high schools for its black students. Fayetteville and Charleston were both facing financial situations and made their decision based on these facts and not their moral desire to integrate.(Johnson124) Although many black students were subjected to cases of verbal harassment and dismissive treatment from their teachers, they were also able to form positive relationships with...
Currently, the Cabot Public Schools lacks in the area of diversity when it comes to race and ethnicity. However, in recent years, t...
Education in America has evolved through out its history and has become a major necessity to excel in the work force, just imagine 100 years ago graduating high school in many areas was rare, twenty-five years ago a high school diploma was a must to find a good job and now college and mostly likely grad school is expected by many young adults in order to ensure financial security in life. So if education is evolving then the instructors which provide the information and lessons to our children must also evolve with the ever changing tides the educational field presents today. One of the most notable differences is the students in the class rooms, with different ethnic groups more intertwined than ever teachers have been exposed to a much different class room setting than those that had came before them. Today’s teachers must open their minds and evolve into the next generation of instructors and in order to do so they will have to become more aware and sensitive to a more diverse classroom
Based on my research, I have learned that students no matter age, races, class, cultural, gender, and developmental needs, have the same rights to a good education that embraces diversity while teaching them
Diversity has become an important topic of conversation among members of the education profession, as well as an issue that presents great concern within other areas, professions, and fields of study. While diversity is a multi-tiered entity with multiple elements including but not limited to socio-economic, gender, sexual orientation, religious, physical differences, and cultural intricacies, perhaps the most inclusive of the composition of diversity is that of race and ethnical diversity in regards to a variety of aspects, but none so dramatic as that of the educational process and educational system in general (Jorgan & Ross-Vega, 2010). In addition to the entity known as diversity, an increasingly trending topic of interest, the research has been presented the opportunity to live in what most experts within the context of diversity would consider and refer to as a vapidly diverse geographic location. The location in question is the region known as Appalachia, more specific, Central Appalachia, and within its population of citizens, it has a minute percentage of those that would be categorized as racial minorities. In putting this into context to location would include, African Americans, Hispanics, First Generation Americans(Native Americans), Asian, bi-racial, an d those whom identify themselves as multiracial or considered “other” (Pollard, 2004).
Imagine, if you will: you are a student at Collinsville High School, occupied with homework in your study hall. Your study hall teacher gets the class’s attention, and with a somber look tells the class that all of the ideas we were hoping for in our school were struck down by the school board. This is the possible outcome of our school if the school board is not fixed with new and more experienced people. Many people have been talking about the possibility of modifying who is in our school board. CHS should have more experienced people on their school board because the choices made by the board do not always relate to CHS in particular, points made by the government are not met by showing how important they are, and the people on the board have little to no experience with the kids or teachers and their struggles in the school.
This quote is symbolic of the expressed opinions and ideology of the founding fathers of America. History, especially the history of the American educational system, paints a contradictory portrait. Idealistic visions of equity and cultural integration are constantly bantered about; however, they are rarely implemented and materialized. All men are indeed created equal, but not all men are treated equally. For years, educators and society as a whole have performed a great disservice to minorities in the public school sector. If each student is of equal value, worth, and merit, then each student should have equal access and exposure to culturally reflective learning opportunities. In the past, minorities have had a muted voice because of the attitude of the majority. Maxine Greene summarizes a scene from E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, after which she poses questions that many minorities have no doubt asked silently or loud. “Why is he unseen? Why were there no Negroes, no immigrants? More than likely because of the condition of the minds of those in power, minds that bestowed upon many others the same invisibility that Ellison’s narrator encounters” (Greene,1995, p. 159). Multicultural education is needed because it seeks to eradicate “invisibility” and give voice, power, and validation to the contributions and achievements of people with varied hues, backgrounds, and experiences.
“Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness” (Joseph). The most important part to a school is amount of diversity that is within the classrooms. By having community that is compiled of several different races, cultures, genders, languages, socioeconomic backgrounds, and individuals with special needs all contribute to what diversity is composed of. With having a wide range of diversity in the classroom, it is prominent to make sure that each family is part of their child’s learning and that you take into consideration each and every students culture. As a teacher that may experience diversity within the classroom, it is also prominent to make sure that you have good communication skills with