Essays on Formal Schooling

[Due Date] Homeschooling parents are at times seen as isolated, self-centered, and reclusive. They keep their children away from the markedly valuable commonplace school, the environment where children acquire the essential knowledge and experiences that equip them with the required skills to successfully deal with civic and societal demands. Levin and Belfield (2003) report findings that “private schools produce more community service, civic skills, civic confidence, political knowledge, and political tolerance than public schools” (Ladd & Goertz, 2014, 222). However, it is incorrect to portray homeschooling as dispossession or removal of schools of their valuable purposes. It is widely known ...

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The achievement gap in formal schooling between African American children and other groups is stark. This has proven consistent over time (Coleman, et al, 1966), across jurisdictions (Clotfelter, Ladd & Vigdor, 2009; Bailey & Dziko, 2008), and throughout the K-12 system (The National Center for Education Statistics, 2014). Improving these issues is an obvious direction forward. Yet, the obstacles are numerous and multifaceted (Sanacore, 2004). Relative to the public domain, the school system is often targeted for a lack of understanding in relation to educating young African Americans of low socio-economic status. The curriculum is long been criticized for being de-contextualized to ...

Intelligence is the mental capability that involves a person’s ability to plan, reason, think abstractly, solve problems, learn quickly and from experience and comprehend complex ideas (Perloff, Sternberg & Urbina, 1996). African Americans grow in a culture where they people view intelligence as a means to develop categories and engage in rational debate. The culture of the African Americans revolves around media technologies such as television, films and video games. This gives them an advantage in visual tests.

The African-American frame of reference is based on the western culture. Among the Luo of Kenya and the African Americans, intelligence is the ...

Introduction

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most notable playwrights in history because of his ingenious and though-provoking plays. Shaw’s works are influential because they urge people to ask the difficult questions. Many people may disagree with Shaw’s views, specifically those that he writes in his plays but through his works, he helps people think about society and life. By Shaw’s criteria, we can call him a gentleman playwright because according to him, “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” By sharing his ingénue with the world through his ...

Have learning styles changed over time? If we think about Gardner’s multiple intelligences, or the range of learning styles that have been identified since the second half of the twentieth century, some might say ‘yes’. But, in fact, people have not changed so drastically since the institutionalization of formal schooling in the 18th Century, or since the onset of the Internet generation (otherwise known as the Millennials). What has enabled the genesis of learning styles to emerge is a better understanding of pedagogy. For far too long the only way to learn was through the sage on the stage ...

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Home schooling is a system of education, which involves children being schooled at home. This system involves the children being taught by their parent or other qualified tutors. As opposed to the conventional settings of public or private schools, all the learning activities in the homeschooling system take place right at home. Homeschooling is by all means a legal, educational setup and the result that it yields are held in as high regard as those derived from the formal schooling system. Statistics about homeschooling prove that this option of schooling is very fruitful as far as academic excellence is concerned. A ...

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Graff argues about the contrast between the public argument and street smarts. The author argues that the street smarts have skills that go untapped by the formal schooling. The students have many skills that go unnoticed by the schooling process. Most of the intellectual resources go unnoticed because they are attached to the anti-intellectual interests. People tend to believe that intellectualism is found only in books and philosophies while giving little focus and emphasis on the aspects as sports, dating, clothing fashions or information concerning cars. We tend to give emphasis on the look knowledge while forgetting the important ...

African Americans in various states experienced a harshly segregation and a wide range of oppression during the civil war. This led to civil movements that were meant to end the slavery life and fight for civil rights. The slavery was more evident in southern especially Georgia where more slaves were needed to work in the growing cotton plantation. In order to protect their interest, Georgians established political, social, and cultural boundaries that oppressed the African American. The paper will evaluate the meanings or boundaries of freedom change throughout Georgia history. The cotton boom not only revitalized slavery, but it also ...