a. Students: All articles focused on students in schools
b. Lack of Understanding: Each story showed the problem of understanding others. Whether it was reformers, policy makers, or fellow students.
c. Issues students were having in schools:
1. From Still separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid: Segregation, funding, lack of programs, and gaps between races.
2. Facts About the Achievement Gap: Segregation, lack of programs, and gaps between races. How collaboration can help fix things.
3. How male and female students use language differently: Differences in communication when we place ourselves in different settings. How collaboration can help fix things.
4. Why are all the …show more content…
Why are all the black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria provided by the narrator herself, student’s comments, and some in text citations.
5. What social, political, or economic questions do these article raise? How do you respond to these questions?
Socially, it shows there still may be problems when it comes to segregations. Consider how the students in the essay How male and female students use language differently, students had problems communicating even when it came to sex. Collaboration seems to be an effective tool in all articles to help bring problems to the table to begin to consider how problems can be …show more content…
What value questions do these article raise? How do you respond to these questions? Can you articulate an arguable claim about these questions?
a. Where the smaller percentage of non-black students were prevalent (whites and Hispanics) how did they compare?
b. How are children doing in poverty areas outside the city?
c. What are the results of mainly white populated schools facing the same circumstances, what are the numbers in those schools?
d. Any cities where social programs were introduced and grades of students increased?
e. Black children have black teachers that can serve as role models, what other role models can be utilized?
f. Only one of the articles is relatively new. The other three are ten plus years old. What has changed in these articles since then? Statistical numbers? Reforms created?
g. I did not see any information about demographics. I don’t necessarily disagree, however they made many references to gaps and percentages. They could have inserted some population numbers instead.
I think these questions may not necessarily change what exists even today, but maybe could show some positive changes if any existed. Maybe that could show those who disbelieve, there are