Literacy History - Blog Assignment # 1

   Part IV: 1980-2000 The Bottom Line   From reading part four of the book, I have observed quite a few advancements and developments.  First I would like to start off with this era of the book being the most excelling and supportive period in the book.  This time period mainly focused on how to build and establish a school structure that can mend, groom and form the children/students in such a manner that they ready and well prepared for the business guided economy.  From what I picked up the main reason as to why in this time span the schools were focused on heavily was because the schools had low standards and condition required for a degree to be obtained and for the business world ahead of them.  Economically speaking, the government looked at it as being a risk for the nation and I totally one hundred percent agree.  The reason I agree because it is the school's job to educate students to highest degree in order for them to attend college or...

 Part III: 1950-1980 Separate and Unequal   From reading part three of the book, I have finally gathered more than enough information to better understand as to how the US schools were created with the ones in which we inhabit in the present.   This book has really educated me as well as highlighted many dilemmas with education and how it poorly it was structured and dealt with, especially in this chapter of the book entitled '1950 -1980 Separate and Unequal'.   I would use two words at most to describe this section of the book and that is 'SEGREGATION' & 'INTEGRATION'.             The first word segregation really described the beginning part of this chapter.   Segregation played a huge part in this chapter by showing that the people of color experienced many violent attacks, job losses, being homeless and all this did was highlighted inequality even more.   For example, why was it that Mexic...