Blue Island can be characterized generally as a low-to-moderate income community, with significant pockets of middle class and working-class family households, as well as more impoverished sections. Basic educational attainment of Blue Island residents (25 years and over) has increased over the last decade; however, the proportion of residents receiving degrees of higher education has decreased. More Blue Island residents are receiving high schools diplomas now, as compared to 2000, while a smaller percentage of residents are achieving bachelor’s degrees or higher.…
This article shows just how many students are dropping out of schools all across the nation, from small rural schools to big suburban schools. They focus on a town called Shelbyville, IN to show us about students who dropout and why it happens. They also talk about how America is very oblivious to the dropout rates because many schools cover up the actual dropout rate using the GED trick. They talk about how at this high school in Shelbyville they had what they call “push-out” students rather than dropout students, as they do in many other schools. They say how the school used to have the tendency to focus more on the needs of the rich kids, even though the poor students were the ones who really needed the attention and help. They say how the…
Objective: Create expectations for success, offer encouragement and provide academic support for students who are struggling…
Cited: Adams, Caralee J. "Completing High School: "2013 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic"." Education Week 32.22 (2013): 5+. ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection. Web. 12 Oct. 2013.…
The article examines United States policies that affect Native American people, in particular their educational issues. The author connects the government assimilating of Native Americans into “main stream society” and the current issues Native American’s face such as violence and drug abuse. Cherokee people are the primary focus in the article, but even though every tribe is different, many are faced with the same problems. General information on the development and reasoning of assimilation, as well as the use of boarding schools are thoroughly explained.…
Demographics, culture, and education define what socioeconomics the Indian American/Alaska Natives are categorized into. For example, low class, middle class, high class economics. The difficulties for equal employment and educational opportunities is key to pointing out these problems. The Leadership conference states, that as of 2004, thegraduation rate for American Indian high school students was less than 50 percent, and Native people were twice as likely as whites to have less than a 9th grade education. How is a person of a minority group able to provide health care and health maintenance to their family, if one can never increase or better themselves in a job that is unstable and low paying? Poverty, decreased access to healthcare, and low educational levels hinder the environmental growth for Native American children (TLC,…
In today’s society there are many people living in poverty. All across America there are different projects and reservations where the less fortunate reside. Statistics show that mostly minorities live in these different locations. Native Americans and African Americans are two of the more popular races living in these places. The group suffering the most in these situations is the youth. Although both Native American and African American children living on a reservation or in the projects experience a terrible community, have little to no faith, and a broken family structure, African American youth living in the projects have it worse than Native American children living on a reservation.…
This analytical research paper will address the issue of Native American assimilation and display how the efforts made by the American Government failed to shed a positive light on the indigenous people. It will also explore the founding of specific schools for Indian children, namely the Carlisle Indian Industrial School for Native Americans. The school was intended to integrate Indian children into western society by educating them and transforming their cultural beliefs. Although founder Richard Henry Pratt had good intentions for the school, it ended up doing more…
As Native American youth suffer from discrimination, a sense of their safety and cultural identity may be disturbed. An unsafe environment is not good for adolescent…
The issue amongst this group is the dropout rate that has affected this group in epidemic proportions. Due to oppression discrimination and racism the African American in America is still struggling for meritocracy today. With the of lack of education, poverty and imprisonment, the Black male is now being considered an endangered species. With the lack of education, poverty and imprisonment, The Black male is now being considered an endangered species. According to the Bossip staff (2009), “Nearly one in four young, black, male high school dropouts are incarcerated or institutionalized on an average day. A new study by Northwestern University shows that about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with the slim one in 35 young male high school graduates.” Another study suggested that discrimination in the school districts across the nation has had a negative effect on African- American adolescents, boy and girls.…
Existing research on the causes and impact of racial, ethnic and economic isolation of students in public schools in Connecticut and America-at-large has found that housing patterns and school district residency requirements have created large numbers of public schools that are racially, ethnically and economically segregated. Research has further documented that efforts to eliminate segregation through choice-based programming has been marginally effective. The impact of this racial, ethnic, and economic isolation contributes to a large achievement gap between racially isolated White and racially isolated Minority students. This research posits that in addition to maintaining demographic patterns that the United States Supreme Court and the…
there are many teenagers that have never been out of their state, and in few…
Even in the 21st century the United States public school system is once again becoming segregated by race. Results of research show there are several factors involved in this trend, including housing discrimination and the United States Supreme Court granting the states sovereignty to govern their own policies on school desegregation; even going so far as to say the policies employed by states to desegregate based on race were unconstitutional. This topic addresses the issues causing resegregation and the ideas set forth to alleviate the problem and insure equal education for all children, regardless of race or socio-economic status.…
Native American education is a very important topic to today's way of living. What percentage of Indians for to what schools? In the 1990's, about 40,000 Native students (10% of the total) attended some 170 Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA is an organization which helps fund the reservation schools. There were also about 10,000 (3%) attended private schools, and over 300,000 (87%) attended public schools. In these schools, a disproportionate number of Native students achieve below national averages. On the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, 40% of white fourth graders scored at or above proficient, compared to only 17% of Native American students.…
Historically, Native American tribes have struggled to keep their unique culture identities. This is largely due to the actions made by the federal and state governments as a result of ethnocentrism and indifference. In order to maintain cultural identity, generational traditions must continue from parents to their children and their children’s children. It is the very essence of how culture lives on in families and generations (Basic, 2004). From the time of the 1800’s, the Boarding School Movement, backed by the Federal Government, began the attempted cultural annihilation of the Native…