The Blog of Literacy Learning

 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 ...

  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...