American education system and policy overview

American Education

America is facing an educational crisis, however the 2001 no child left behind policy did wonders for education because it made children from all different backgrounds receive a good education. According to the book, within the No Child Left Behind Act, there is Character Education where bilingual education would be transferred to English so that all students can receive the best education. "It is a book about the abilities hidden by class and cultural barriers. And it is a book about movement: about what happens as people who have failed begin to participate in the educational system that has seemed so harsh and distant to them." (Preface, pg. xi). Furthermore, the economic is linked to education by funding because again the No Child Behind Act is backbone of Bush's agenda for public education. In public education, there is a big range of students. It is extremely important that there is diversity in schools because there times where minority children are ignored because the schools do not know to accommodate them, which makes them withdrawn. Therefore, these programs will enable diversity to be in schools.

By having diversity in schools, educators ensure that America has an economy that can compete globally. To refer to the No Child Left Behind Act, one's education is not determined by one's zip code, class, income, race, gender, or citizenship status. In fact, we all responsible to see to that a student who has behavior issues, student with disabilities, or English-language learner receive a fair education. From the book, it is clear some children do not feel as if they get the same treatment as other students who seem normal. Therefore, programs that the No Child Left Behind Act need to be supported.

Students are who non-native speakers have trouble finding their identity in the classroom. For example, if the student expresses himself in a twisted manner through his assignment, it is a sign of depression the behavior of students inside the classroom depends somewhat upon their relationships with professors and faculty, because, after all, they are the ones who teach the subject and interact with students. It is inevitable that behaviors of students inside a classroom before the No Child Behind Act in a way depended on their race or ethnicity, which does not make it very neutral place of learning and social interaction. According to the book, studies have shown non-native speaking students or students who have special needs physical or behavioral struggle depression because they are in a different country and away from family. "Psychologist David Pillemer has analyzed memories of school, and suggests that such memories have much to tell us about students' perception of success or failure. When I talk to people about their education, from factory workers to physicians, from middle-school to doctoral students, it is telling how many of them call up resonant and emotional memories of events in school that, they claim, have had a potent effect on so many things: their sense of their intelligence, their social competence, their bearing in public spaces" (p. 244 -- 245). Scholars argue whether this is the implication of the alienation to students who form the mainstream population or just one of the effects of being drenched in a multicultural society. Therefore, it would help if teachers were taught how to manage diversity in the classrooms so that urban schools would not lose any more new teachers each year, which would be something the No Child Left Behind Act would support and that would be a solution to the education problem.