LITERATURE REVIEW #1: The Prize In the book, The Prize, written by Dale Russakoff discusses the issues urban schools face with the limits of money and a top-down approach in how to run the schooling system. The book is based of Newark schools, and starts off with New Jersey politicians Cory Booker and Chris Christie who are troubled with the $100 million pledge from Mark Zuckerberg to transform the Newark school. Money is limited to reform education, even more so with the top-down autocracy of the locally elected officials who are not allowing reform to take place. The book further describes the situations in the Newark school, with the problems of poverty and violence at the forefront of it all.
Unsatisfactory schools do not maintain suitable conditions for students to learn and they are not treated as well as students from other schools. An example of this is in Kozol’s Fremont High School when it states that, “Long lines of girls are ‘waiting to use the bathrooms,’ which are generally ‘unclean’ and ‘lack basic supplies,’ including toilet paper” (Kozol 707). Student who have the desire to go to college hit dead ends in the school. One of the most impactful parts of the passage was when Kozol quoted Fortino saying, “You’re ghetto, so we send you to the factory” (Kozol 710). This shows the distrust that students in low-income areas feel toward our education system.
Purpose and Focus: The purpose and main point of chapter one of Hope and Healing in Urban Education are that youth in low-income environments need extra hope and attention in order to succeed. Shawn Ginwright explains that while it may be difficult to reach these communities, it’s a worthwhile investment of time and resources to improve them. Ginwright uses personal examples of people who have been affected by the struggle of living in a crime-ridden and low-income neighborhood in San Francisco. The eldest sibling examined, Tanya, a community organizer suffered the loss of her younger brother, who was murdered while he was visiting her on holiday from college.
How could impoverished city residents not having proper access to resources in their communities and school systems impact children and even teachers in school? In the novel, There Are No Children Here, the author, Alex Kotlowitz, retells stories of the residents of Henry Horner public housing who are shown to have inadequate support from the Chicago Public School System and community around them. Considering that these students and teachers did not have enough support from the school and community, it’s evident that the Chicago Public School System could not effectively meet their needs. It’s clear that the Chicago Public Schools system is severely underfunded. A great example of this is a situation in which Pharoah and Lafayette’s elementary
Rose tells the reader some of the actions students take towards their education, students have slack off, get into fights and they party in other words they are becoming into troublemakers. Teachers should provide their education without any problem to help students learn teachers need to
Kids in the most disadvantaged neighborhood, with low family resources, bad schools, and neighborhoods characterized by violence are the ones who are being punished unfairly and are not given second chances. This is because of the discrimination and the bias of the criminal justice system against poor African-American communities, which represent a concentrated disadvantage in that case. Moreover it affirms the theory that the poor are more likely to get to prison because there is a bias in arrest such as the neighborhood social class that affects the presence of the police and their arrests. In that case 6th street is considered a neighborhood that represents communities that are disadvantaged, and therefore the presence of police is greater than necessary. Instead of having the resources from outside to ameliorate the conditions of the neighborhood and improve schools or academic institutions, the efforts and resources are being invested in the war against crimes, but without giving an alternative solution for their
The story’s central idea revolves around economic and racial inequality, the story establishes that the spread of education and the recognition of these disparities can spark a willingness to take actions against
The article “The Myth of Helplessness” by Jay P. Greene, talks about education and how a child social status can affect them. When some people are facing problem they tend to make excuse for themselves. When people are making excuses that is just another way of saying that they are just giving up. When people are from a trough background they sometime have a hard time trying seeing a better future for themselves and believe that they will live the same way they are living now in the future. There are many schools that have problem.
Poverty is one of the major reasons that inner-city schools do so poorly because often times students lack the fundamental skills to be academically
One’s socioeconomic status determines how well one will excel in school. Underprivileged students in low-income neighborhoods get the shorter end of the stick in the education system. As seen in the critically acclaimed movie “Freedom Writers,” the local high school in a low-income neighborhood is filled with underprivileged students who have lost their motivation to learn. This occurs because the students come from significantly different backgrounds in a neighborhood that struggles with poverty, family issues, and gang violence. The movie accurately displays these issues through the way it depicts schools in low-income neighborhoods.
As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing bigger and bigger everyday. More and more people are falling into insular poverty. Insular poverty is rapidly growing, in our nation, into a huge problem today. It’s affecting student’s education causing them to work so much harder to get out of poverty. To get a higher education in a poverty stricken home is almost impossible.
However, there are times when a student lacks the will to learn at all regardless of their home life. In contrast, a child raised in an environment that is not conducive to education may take an opposite approach and yearn for further
It is very difficult for a poor or working class person who grew up in an urban ghetto to rise out of poverty for multiple reasons. Resources are limited to the poor and working class. Parents are forced to send their children to the local schools because they cannot afford to send their children to better school districts. The education curriculum is totally different for these children for the reason that they do not have access to new/improved books, good computers/electronics, academic assistance, teachers who genuinely care, and they aren’t even following the same curriculum as students who attend schools in better districts. With the lack of resources these children are forced to fall below academic standard which makes it extremely difficult
Over the years, public schools in the US are required to provide quality education for every child, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. However, critics of the public education system argue that the majority of the children lack equal learning opportunities and access to quality schools (Nelson, Palonsky & McCarthy, 2010). Some critics argue that the public education system prolong poverty among low-income families as the rich are provided with better learning facilities (Granger, 2008). The physical surroundings of wealthy neighborhoods house innovative and safer school facilities that offer better learning environments. Students from low-income families, especially the ethnic minority families lower quality public schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
In Blood Diamond, Dia has to walk over 5 kilometer everyday to learn, and accomplish his dream to become a doctor. Dia is lucky to have a father that motivates him to go to school, but some children in Africa aren’t so lucky. There are some kids who are deprived of education from as early as primary school. As a result, they don’t learn basic skills like reading and writing, which leads to a life of crime or poverty. This cycle is proven in not only developing countries, but in the U.S as well.
