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Catching Up To The Modern Day

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 Catching Up To The Modern Day     Public Education has had a long battle throughout several different decades and centuries to reach the point that is has today. Through the several large hurdles such as the battle for public education to even be an option to the battle that tore down the walls that were segregation. It is nothing short of a miracle that everything has reached that point it is in today. Where distance becomes less and less of an issue because of the distance thanks to public education, education becomes more and more accessible. However, despite the many growths, inequality is something that is still hiding beneath the surface. With education becoming more accessible, the struggle between economic and social classes continue to plague the less fortunate in these areas.      The diversity of America has become one of its many strong suits, but it also has introduced many more challenges that children and parents will have to face. The large...
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The Unfairness Hidden In Plain Sight

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 The Unfairness Hidden In Plain Sight     Inequality and segregation is a major theme for the time period we learn about in the book and in the several videos we watched for this section of class. From the uphill battles of immigrants the less privileged to the effects of favoritism in the modern day. Inequality continues to run rampant in the world of education, but we take the lessons from the past and learn to improve upon not only them but also ourselves.      The stories of inequality and how they continue to dig its dirty roots into history are a dime a dozen, but it is thanks to those stories that we learn about the horrors that were seen as normal and commonplace back in the day. The all too famous story of Little Rock Nine still holds weight as there will always be a battle for equal education, for equal opportunities that seem to used as a symbol of status rather than a symbol of humanity. However, that should not be what defines humanity, as the ...
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Education to the Future

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  Education to the Future     Part II of School  furthers proves of the leaps and bounds made to improve education and make it a greater battle for education to be easily accessible and understood by all those that gain access of it. This section tackles the idea of how immigrants those born outside of the United States pushed America's public education further along to vastly improve themselves.      In the section, me and my group discussed about the different effects immigrants had on education throughout the entirety of the early 1900s, how education needed to be evolved and become more inclusive for the powerhouse America was truly becoming by this time period. Schools during this time were extremely segregated with racial implications limiting and even diminishing the education some children would be able to attain. It is no surprised that during this time, those of African American descent still had a long upward battle in trying to get th...
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Education is Equality

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  Education Is Equality     Upon reading the entirety of "The Common School," I ended up learning a lot about education that truly did fascinate me. The upwards battle that equal education has always been something that is taught over and over in schools, but that is usually in regards to the racial reasons as to why some opportunities were not equal. However, this first part shed a lot of light upon how difficult it was for people to get simple education to the point where it is today. Even back during the earliest days of America or any country, education had the battle of funding and accessibility. Unless someone was of a higher class, getting a well paying or fulfilling education was impossible. People understood this oversight and made it this mission to pursue and eventually come to have education be the importance it now has today.           Horace Mann was someone that I had gained a lot of appreciation and respect for throughout the ...
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Introduction to the Pedro Zone

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 Greetings To All!     Hello everyone! My name is Pedro Chavez and I am currently on my 4th/senior year here at New Jersey City University. I am still going strong towards my goal of getting my Media Arts degree.     It wasn't until high school that I took a proper interest into the idea of media and literacy. I had no clear direction with my sights for the future changing at every possible corner. I thank my teachers heavily during my junior year of high school because they are the ones that truly put me on my path to improvement. I took a journalism class which required me to do a lot more writing for scripts and general research while also expanding my knowledge regarding films. My English class during that time also made me appreciate the hard work and the amazing story telling used in media.      It's hard to imagine when my first interest in general stories or books began. My memory has never been a strong suit, but I would imagine I read st...
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