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The Pros And Cons Of The American Education System

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How can undocumented Hispanic students prove that the American Education System is unfair? Hispanic parents come to the united states to provide their children a better life in a country known as the land of opportunity. About 65,000 Undocumented students graduate from high school each year, The educational condition of hispanics has been characterized by below grade-level enrollment, high attrition rates (over 50 percent) in many schools districts, high rates of illiteracy, low numbers of school years completed, and consequently, great underrepresentation in higher education according to Arias M, Beatriz from the American journal of education. “ultimately, the high dropout rate that has been the bane of hispanics education may prove to be the results of excessively inferior educational experiences endured by the youngster as they progress through the educational system.” ( Minicucci, Acosta, relapp, hernandez, and margolis.) “Grade retention among Latinos is linked to high school dropout rates, about 11% of Hispanic youth who had dropped out of high school had been retained in a grade at some point in their school career, compared to 4.3% of Hispanic youth who completed”. (Adriana D. Kohler and Melissa Lazarín.) …show more content…

undocumented immigrants finding themselves caught in the wake of political and national debates and controversies related to homeland security and U.S. border policy. The government should start discussing this topic to be able to help out those who are undocumented who are wanting to take advantage of their education and furthering it, but dont have the federal help to accomplish their goals to become successful in life. undocumented students cannot get federal help because they weren 't born in the united states. some are eligible to receive in-state

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Throughout the textbook (Latinos in The United States: Diversity and Change (2015) by Rogelio Sáenz and Maria C. Morales) as well as the discussions held in class so far, the same themes present can be tied into Human Targets. Although the book primarily focuses on the criminalization and marginalization of Latino youth, specifically the youth that is gang associated, the hurdles the youth in the book face can be connected to common hurdles Latinos, as a whole, face in the U.S. Education, Latinos in the workforce, teenage employment rates, and machismo are all examples of subjects touched on in the book as well as in the classroom, and all are merged into the book to aid the understanding of the issues

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Do you know of someone that has dropped out of high school? Are they of Hispanic descent? The dropout rate for Hispanic students has gone up to 30 percent nationwide. The saddest thing knowing about all of this is that American born Hispanics is higher than those that immigrate here (“The Hispanic Dropout Mystery,” by Susan Headden, reprinted from U.S. News & World Report, vol. 123, no. 15, October. Used by permission.

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Rodriguez experienced the consequences of racial discrimination in the school system. One school he attended he could not speak Spanish because the teachers felt their being talked about, if caught you would have detention or sent home. The Chicano students there felt like they were “being neglected, treated like second-class citizens… denied access to school resources” (182), in comparison to the white students. Everywhere he went it seemed to be a road block, at home, his neighborhood, and

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There are many data that show Latinx high school dropout rates have significantly decreased while Latinx college enrollment has increased. In 1996, the dropout rate for Latinx high school students was thirty four percent. Twenty years later that rate decreased by more than half and was at a record ten percent in 2016. That same year, forty-seven percent of Latinx high school graduates enrolled in a post-secondary institution, up fifteen percentage points from 1999 (Gramlich, 2017). Despite Latinx college enrollment being at an all-time high compared to former years, Latinx are still inordinately behind other groups in obtaining a post-secondary degree.

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The American education system provides less resources and inexperienced teachers to schools with low-income students, which are said to be mainly African American and Latino. This continuing inequality has detrimental effects on society. In 2013, only 66 percent of African American graduated on time, while 83 percent of White students finished high school in four years. These facts undermine our core beliefs about education and equality. It also undermines our national ability to be competitive in the global

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In the book Chicano Students and the Courts, the author Richard R. Valencia provides a very detailed overlook of the education litigation that the Mexican American students and community went through for education. They fought for education equality and desegregation in schools throughout the country from K-12 and in higher education facilities. The separation of Mexican Americans from their white colleagues around 1848; this started the mistreatment and discrimination of students of Mexican decent. The objective that the author would like to demonstrate is the effort that the Latino community, parents and students, endured for equal opportunities in the educational system. The number of desegregation lawsuits that were created by Mexican

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n “The Failure of American Public Education” (February 01 1993), John Hood explains the sundry perspectives on the American education system. Hood tactfully uses cause and effect to demonstrate the viewpoints of a myriad of individuals regarding American schools and their approaches to effectively educating students; he explains how “free-market thinkers believe that applying market competition to the public schools will solve many of America’s educational problems” (Hood) ; “critics believe that public education reforms fail because they are compromised or sabotaged by the education lobbies—teacher associations, administrators, and the legislators in their pockets” (Hood) and “many conservatives believe that American public education is in

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The share of Latino immigrants in the United States is rapidly increasing. In fact, 17 percent of Latino students who are enrolled in public schools are undocumented (Perez, 2010). The growth in the presence of Latino immigrants is especially true in California. Currently, California holds the largest concentration of undocumented Latinos (Perez, 2010). As a result, the state has enacted policies, such as Assembly Bill 540 (AB 540) and its follow-up law, the California Dream Act, so that higher education would become more accessible to students without legal status.

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Hispanics, initial drawbacks frequently come from their parents ' immigrant and economic position and their sparse knowledge regarding the United States education system. While Hispanic students navigate through the school system, insufficient resources in schools and their awkward rapport with teachers continues to weaken their academic achievement. Initial drawbacks continue to mount up, causing the Hispanic population in having the least high school and college degree accomplishment, which is counterproductive of having a possibility for stable employment. According to Portman & Awe (2009) school counselors and comprehensive school counseling programs are anticipated to play a dynamic role in addressing the discrepancy between diverse

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More than four in ten of 16-24 year-old first generation Hispanics have not finished high school and are not enrolled in school, compared to 17 percent of second generation and 22 percent of third generation Hispanics. More than half of Hispanic immigrants do not have at least a high school diploma, twice the rate of native-born Hispanics (Fry, 2010). Hispanic adults who have recently arrived to the United States are not much better educated than Hispanic immigrants who have been in the United States for decades. Although, with the exception of adults who arrived before 1970, a majority of Hispanic immigrant’s in 2008 were high school dropouts.

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An education should be a priority to all students and we, as the Latino community, must reshape the policy flaws to establish a foundation that will help the growing Latino community. From my own personal experience,

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The Latino population in the United States is one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the country and in 2014 a new record of Latino population was set of 55.4 million, an increase of 1.2 million of the year prior (Krogstad and Lopez, 2015). Since the population of Latinos increased so did the rate of Latinos attending college. One of the major problems we have related to higher education in America is that the Latino male community possesses the lowest high school graduation rate and also the lowest college enrollment of any subgroup (Sáenz and Ponjuán, 2012). Latino males endure many different challenges before heading off to college and while attending college such as being home sick, not fitting in, being discriminated against, experiencing

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Additionally, female children of immigrant parents are also likely to aim towards higher status occupations and reveal this through early educational expectations (Feliciano & Rumbaut, 2007)”. This demonstrates that I am not alone in my struggles, and plenty of Latina daughters have the desire to further their education. As the first in my family to go to college, my education and social class have provided numerous challenges in navigating higher education. Coming from a lower class background, I lacked access to support and resources that were available to more privileged

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As known, there is compulsory education in almost all countries which means after a specific age children must go a school to study. There is no another option for them. Whereas, if the goal ‘being educated’ people for going schools there should not be only one option because people cannot be educated just in schools by the way, education is not only for basic sciences, it does also include sporting and artistic activities. Unfortunately, teachers do not care about these activities that is why, compulsory education causes some psychological and also physical problems for students. There are two main issues in this case which are consist of standardized students and psychological pressure of exams, teachers etc.

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There is a third reason which is the Most important reason, is to get a great picture of the cultural diversity of the United States of America. Knowledge of others, their cultures, their sciences and way of life, is useful for learning about a new culture. Some cultures have good qualities and bad recipes, or perhaps do not fit the nature of our lives. For example, my presence in America has made me learn a lot of American cultures that if I find them in my country and may be useful to me or in raising my children such as opening the door to the person walks behind me, honestly I like this behavior which I miss this in my country. In general, the idea of quoting the culture that suits our societies may help us to develop from the reality of our lives.

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