Blog #8
The Problem
We All Live With Video
This video
was very interesting. It was hard to follow because I am a visual learner
rather than just hearing a person talk for the whole time. In the Audio it said
in 2003 there are good schools, bad schools, and this is when No child left
behind came out. Bad schools never caught up to the good schools, which makes
sense because bad schools have bad quality of teachers. In the audio that I listened
to they quoted “Bad schools are black, and Latino and the good schools are
mostly white.” I don’t think that its right to even say that. They have been
trying to get black and white students to go in the same schools for a long
time. Now a days all schools are combined with all different nationalities.
Data shows in the subject reading blacks were tested 39% worse than white kids.
Data also
shows that when black kids sit in a classroom next to white kids is not about intelligence.
Which I totally agree with. It doesn’t matter about your race on how intelligent
you are. In 2014 black students have the most uneducated and unexperienced teachers.
They have the worse class selections. They live in poverty, and they have a lot
of disadvantages.
If you’re in a classroom where all students are behind, your
behind as well. I honestly don’t agree with this, in middle school, I have been
in classes where the students were behind me and I was ahead, the teacher had
to give me more complexed work. The audio video also said “If you are in a
classroom where children are ahead and behind the behind students will catch
up. Data shows that the students are behind because of the teacher because
advanced students have good teachers.” I find it mind blowing that the video
said that kids who struggle the teacher has no time to call their parents
because there is too many kids in the class. I think one phone call or even a
parent meeting at the end of the day will do no harm. It seems to me that the
teacher just didn’t want to help the students out.
In the article Herbert it says that the best teachers tend to
avoid poverty schools. Which these schools have blacks and Hispanic students. This is a nice quote to take away from this
article “If you really want
to improve the education of poor children, you have to get them away from
learning environments that are smothered by poverty.”
This is from 2013 but I still found this pretty interesting.
I felt the same way when trying to listen to the podcast! I think you still did a very good job explaining it though. The data and picture you included is very useful as well.
ReplyDeleteThe graph that you used for displaying the data was really cool, and you did great at explaining all of your points and ideas.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job explaining the podcast!
ReplyDeleteMarissa,
ReplyDeleteI think you did such a great job explaining your ideas and connecting them to the podcast. I also really like the graph, because it relates to this topic a lot.
Marissa, I think you make some great points here. It’s not a child’s race that makes them less intelligent, it is the circumstances that provide disadvantages that make the child test poorly. Integration of schools will help to stop this. Great job!
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