For your new blog response, please either 1) post a tentative thesis for Paper #2 (your in-class essay) here OR 2) comment on someone else's tentative thesis (is it debatable? is it specific enough? does it have a thesis map--list of supporting points?).
If you have any questions as you continue to brainstorm for your in-class essay, feel free to post them here as part of your blog response. I'll be checking the blog several times between now and Wednesday morning and will try to post answers to your questions.
Recap of prompt for Paper #2:
First identify a SPECIFIC problem in education today [this is NOT going to be the major part of your paper]. Then, either 1) explain what the different causes for that problem are, OR 2) propose a feasible solution to the problem [this WILL be the major part of your paper]
Due: before our next class meeting
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For Wednesday's in-class essay, just bring Rereading America, paper, and a pen. You do not need anything else (disregard the part of the calendar that says to bring an outline).
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A major problem in the education system today is the inequality among how students at different schools are treated and the lack of resources they are given to succeed. This problem is caused by unfair teaching methods and bias towards schools in certain locations.
ReplyDeletePeople Can Argue That Who You Hang Out With During School Will Not Change Who You Are, Or How Good Or Bad Your Grades Will Be.
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ReplyDeleteInequality, whether it be racially, socially, or gender oriented, is the main cause for the educational divide among American students.
ReplyDeleteMarlon, can you be more specific in referring to inequality? You can add another sentence to elaborate on what you mean or alter the wording in your original.
ReplyDeleteMayra, you have a good start going. Will you be showing the causes of this or have you come up with a solution?
ReplyDeleteThe statement you have is debatable, I'm just not sure where you're going with it.
Depending on social class, students will receive different qualities of education and essentially keep themselves stuck in their parents and grandparents social standing. The type of education a student receives is critical for the outcome of their future.
ReplyDeleteA major problem with education is the hidden curriculum of schools. This effects students from different ethnicities and social classes and creates vast differences in their education through factors like; school funding, teacher expectations and the vastly different teaching methods it brings, also because of this students and teachers often do not reach their full potential.
ReplyDeletestate standards are suppose to emphasize in the testing and comprehensive learning, yet one important issue in education today is that the students who graduate from highschool still lack requirements of the basic set of skills needed such as: speech, language arts, or math.
ReplyDeleteAlthough parents may think that private school make their children be a special person by great quality of education system, in public schools, public schools offer better environments to students than private schools. Students are able to experience diversity of culture; they can have broader perspectives; and public schools are cheap day care center.
ReplyDeleteOne problem with education today is the peer influence students are put under, most of the times we are influence to do good in school or not to do good according to what friends or family perspective on education is.
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