The Blog of Literacy Learning

  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 ...

 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...