Equity Blog - Education

From the site that brought you the last two photographs that I shared, this blog provides news and opinions on today's educational system. It is a solid collection of the most important stories of the time in the world of education.

Another symbolic photograph from http://equityblog.org/tag/education, this shows young people out in public protesting the budget cuts that are crippling the nation's education system. I believe that it is imperative that not just young people, but all Americans voice their opinions and tell our politicians that these budget cuts, especially the ones to the most important aspects of our nations success, will no longer be tolerated.

This is a picture of Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, with a handful of young American children. It is important to know who Arne Duncan is, because he plays a huge role in the way American education works. This picture captivates a necessary element of Secretary Duncan's job, and that is to be out with the students, listening to them and learning from them, as well as the school teachers. This picture can be found at http://equityblog.org/tag/education/.

Canada's Education Reform

This article is about the reform that Canada has created in their educational system. It explains what Canada did to achieve the reform, mainly looking at teacher development. Like the title hints at, I believe that America could learn from Canada. Teachers must be treated with much more appreciation in this country to achieve the success that other countries such as Canada are achieving.

This is a particularly disturbing video from the documentary "Waiting for Superman". It's discussing what is being called "drop out factories". The numbers of children who are dropping out of high school is astonishing. While this video doesn't give a lot of detail on the reasons for these "drop out factories", it is a good clip from the documentary, and will hopefully interest audiences enough to want to watch the rest of the film.

http://www.dangerousminds.net

Although it does not pertain to the current political system, this article on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal shows the impact it had on the educational system. After The Great Depression, teachers, students, and the entire educational system was in trouble. Franklin Roosevelt put the correct policies in place to help pull education back up to where it needed to be. This article is important because it could be used as a blueprint for the current American government. All hope is not lost, as President Roosevelt proved in the 1930's.

Eliminating Education Inequality Podcast

This is a podcast featuring a fantastic discussion from Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp. She provides terrific ideas on how to eliminate educational inequality, including a plan to create a national corp of recent college graduates to teach the neediest communities for at least two years. She also discusses the problem of education not being a high enough priority for the United States government. This is a great hour of discussion for anyone who is looking for quality ideas and arguments to help eradicate this problem.