At the top of the list we would have to give the suggestion of having many after school programs as suggested in "Children, Arts, and Du Bois" by Kieth Gilurd at the top of the list. At the beginning of the article it is explained how Kieth went to a school to observe the after school program, you learn the story of a child that gets interested in a poet that Kieth brings up. Then you learn that the program will be cut, and like Kieth suggests the children will loose their new interests and begin to fail. Think about all of the new ideas and learning opprotunites that will be given to children if they are able to find their interests in a after school program. The child mentioned in the article only finds out about De Bois only because of the after school program, and with the turn of a pen all of the potential knowledge that that child could have learned about poetry is taken away from them only to save some money. The more frightening thing is that after school programs all over the country are getting cut and more knowledge is being forcibly taken form children.
Next on the list is from Bell hooks article "Teaching critical thinking". in this article it is explained how critical thinking is not being taught at schools to young children at a young age and the repercussions of this, those repercussions being that children loose their wanting to think for themselves and loose the ability to think critically which could solve the problems of children. Being able to think is a great tool, it helps children to grow up to want to think and actually use their brains instead of being pack mules where knowledge is forcibly piled on them and they are expected to keep it forever. Through the processes of not teaching critical thinking children loose the wanting to think and those loose the potential to learn on their own.
After this would come "Gift of Grit" by Jerry Large, in this article Large proposes the idea of teaching grit to students. He solidifies this by giving examples of different students in school form a rich school and a primarily poor and minority school. What he found is that the students who attended the rich school got better grades and test scores that the poorer school and sent more kids to college, but they soon would fail due to the lack of experience and choices that they did not get at their school due to them always being hand held by teachers and sheltered. While;e the poor school had worse test scores, and sent less students to college, yet the ones who did make it had an easier time because they were forced to learn on their own and the learned "Street smarts". I do agree with this idea, i belie that students do need to be taught the ability to persevere and get though school without having their hand held all of the time, so we can avoid the students from failing in the future.
In spot number four is "Arizona Bans Mexican American Studies Program"by Deb Anderson. This article is about how the state of Arizona gets rid of a extracurricular class on Hispanic american studies. The program was a success in that it inspired students of Hispanic american origins to do better in school and it had the numbers in graduation and college bound kids to back it up. "Ninety-seven percent of students participating in the program graduated from school, compared to the 44 percent nationally." While i do believe that having extra courses such ad this is important the reason behind why it is lower on the list is because that my first choice "Children, Arts, and Du Bois" by Kieth Gilurdtouches this topic on a more broad range saying that more of every kind of extracurricular class is needed unlike in this article where it only talks about the situation that happened not the topic it represents.
Lastly would come Barry Boyce's article "A Real Education" where it is promoted that students should be able to have a class that calms them down and gives them peace of mind. He gives examples form Mark Greenberg, director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University and his research which has yielded results and happiness to the students and parents who got involved in mind calming exercises. This helps people not get overheated or over frustrated on school and work. This in essence is a good thing, calm people are happy people and happy people do their work.
Next on the list is from Bell hooks article "Teaching critical thinking". in this article it is explained how critical thinking is not being taught at schools to young children at a young age and the repercussions of this, those repercussions being that children loose their wanting to think for themselves and loose the ability to think critically which could solve the problems of children. Being able to think is a great tool, it helps children to grow up to want to think and actually use their brains instead of being pack mules where knowledge is forcibly piled on them and they are expected to keep it forever. Through the processes of not teaching critical thinking children loose the wanting to think and those loose the potential to learn on their own.
After this would come "Gift of Grit" by Jerry Large, in this article Large proposes the idea of teaching grit to students. He solidifies this by giving examples of different students in school form a rich school and a primarily poor and minority school. What he found is that the students who attended the rich school got better grades and test scores that the poorer school and sent more kids to college, but they soon would fail due to the lack of experience and choices that they did not get at their school due to them always being hand held by teachers and sheltered. While;e the poor school had worse test scores, and sent less students to college, yet the ones who did make it had an easier time because they were forced to learn on their own and the learned "Street smarts". I do agree with this idea, i belie that students do need to be taught the ability to persevere and get though school without having their hand held all of the time, so we can avoid the students from failing in the future.
In spot number four is "Arizona Bans Mexican American Studies Program"by Deb Anderson. This article is about how the state of Arizona gets rid of a extracurricular class on Hispanic american studies. The program was a success in that it inspired students of Hispanic american origins to do better in school and it had the numbers in graduation and college bound kids to back it up. "Ninety-seven percent of students participating in the program graduated from school, compared to the 44 percent nationally." While i do believe that having extra courses such ad this is important the reason behind why it is lower on the list is because that my first choice "Children, Arts, and Du Bois" by Kieth Gilurdtouches this topic on a more broad range saying that more of every kind of extracurricular class is needed unlike in this article where it only talks about the situation that happened not the topic it represents.
Lastly would come Barry Boyce's article "A Real Education" where it is promoted that students should be able to have a class that calms them down and gives them peace of mind. He gives examples form Mark Greenberg, director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University and his research which has yielded results and happiness to the students and parents who got involved in mind calming exercises. This helps people not get overheated or over frustrated on school and work. This in essence is a good thing, calm people are happy people and happy people do their work.
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