Education to the Future

 

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 the same education as others, but others such as Italians and Spanish were wrongfully refused education or were forced to have to lose parts of themselves if they wished to gain American education. American had many issues and they were in very strong effect during this time. However, it was due to the injustices done against the minorities during this time that education was slowly being forced to revamp itself. Education had to improve if it wished to survive on the world stage.

    My groupmates brought many strong quotes and ideas from this section to our discussions. Navdeep brought up the fact that American schools forced immigrants to lose what makes them special, otherwise they'd be looked down upon and be seen as inferior. The cultural differences between the Americans and immigrants of this time was staggering, which would be difficult for children to properly keep up with. Despite the fact that “The American Public school was their portal to opportunity”(pg. 63), the American education system made it very hard to make that a reality.

    Despite how bleak the situation seemed, Jessica brought up an example from page 70 about how despite their struggles, immigrants eventually brought along a lot of good change, having forced American public education to adapt and become more inclusive of the new population that now resided in America. It changed education forever to slowly, but surely, become the powerhouse that is is known to be today.

    While education had many more strides needed to become the important aspect in everyday life it is in today, this era truly placed down the building blocks that would change education. From the more inclusive nature of education today, the past is finally make the changes needed to a bright future.