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  1. Sep 2022
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    1. Romney's assertion that one should simply "Get the education. Borrow money if you have to from your parents" is indicative of his and many peo-ple's inability to understand poverty or any class status other than their own. Romney's assumption is that education is there for the taking. All one needs to do is reach out and grab it. In addition, he is making a bold assertion about your parents' financial holdings. Of course they have money you can borrow. Lots of liquid assets.

      From reading this passage, I think that forms of cultural capital may only be established in wealthy families. My understanding is that if a child of a family can borrow money from their parents to start a business or study, it shows that the family is very supportive of the child's entrepreneurial ideas and has the ability to provide financial support. And this situation just provides many opportunities for the children of these families. But if children from poor families want to borrow money from their parents, I think there is a high probability of failure. Because for families with poor families, parents will put every penny where they need it, perhaps thinking that learning and starting a business are very expensive. So, here I think this point needs to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.

    2. She had no access to pap smears, annual "well woman" breast exams, birth control, or a regular physician when she took ill. My mother recently ended a one-year stint at Walmart, where she was daily promised full-time employment. She is 63 years old, takes 11 prescrip-tion medications and suffers from a number of health conditions that require frequent doctor ;isits. She was consistently worked just shy of 40 hours-again, the employer avoiding having to provide full-time

      The examples mentioned in this article are very common in our daily life, and even many people will be accustomed to them. But in fact, many people have been unequal since they were embryos in the mother's womb. As explained in the article, many pregnant mothers or women are mostly required to overwork, but still receive very meager wages. And this overworked time will cause them to miss many physical examinations that can avoid their health risks. These physical examinations are very important and even affect the fetus in the womb. The reason why these fetuses in the womb are considered unfair in the mother's womb is because many mothers tend to work more and ignore some fetal examinations, resulting in many fetuses born with a lot of potential health risk.

    3. Any serious discussion about the inception of poverty in this country m~st begin by recognizing that class is highly racialized (even globally), and vice versa. The origins of poverty among people of color-specifically descendants of African slaves-are rooted in several centuries of colorized, chattel_ 5l~ve~ with no economic reparation after its formal or informal "end." The maiontyl r poor people in the United States are White, but the majority of people

      By reading this paragraph, I very much agree with the point here. One reason why poor students underperform is not because of themselves, but because of what society provides them with conditions that limit their potential. I think this point of view can explain one of the reasons why many poor families will remain poor. Even if the children of these families go to college, it is very likely that the economic situation of these families will not change too much. And the charts in the text also clearly describe some of the degrees that such poor children are restricted.

    4. comprehend why young learners and groups who have been traditionally u d served by public schools continue to be challenged in education and life Tnh er-. ese teachers of tomorrow are particularly concerned that even after all students h been offered "12 years of free schooling," they are unable to "lift themselv::~ out of poverty. In short, they genuinely wonder how such dismal outcomes f poor children could persist when the great equalizer undoubtedly works andor poverty-ending solution is clearly at hand. Year after year, I continue to observ: that as a result of this flawed, deficit thinking, both pre-and in-service teachers have come to develop and staunchly cling to their disgust at what they perceive to be squandered opportunities. Poor children fail in schools because they are not taking advantage. Poor people exist because they wasted a good, free educa-tion. The poor themselves are the problem.

      From reading this paragraph, I think that this "great" is very much like a fallacy that nominally gives many different types of students a learning opportunity to work hard and even eliminate poverty. However, in reality, this 12-year Free education can't play any role. Even, they have taken all 12 years of free education, but their lives have not changed. The only way out for children from poor families seems to be to study, but if they don't change because of study When they do better, they are at fault. I think this view is very bizarre, which is inherently a problem of social systems and policy frameworks.

    5. Horace Mann was on to something. When he witnessed an angry street riot in New England, his conviction that "the educated, the wealthy, the intelligent" had gone morally astray by abandoning the public was fortified {Johnson, 2002, p. 79). Mann chided the economic elite for shirking obligations to their fellow man by favoring private education over common schools. He conceptualized public education as "the great equalizer," or the most powerful mechanism for abating class-based "prejudice and hatred," and, most important, the only means by which those without economic privilege or generational wealth could experience any hope of equal footing.

      After reading this passage, I very much agree with the point here. Because in the past, the elites of many societies and some wealth-gathering groups usually devoted themselves to creating elite education and cultivating their offspring to become a new generation of elites, which would tear apart educational resources and cause uneven distribution. The descendants of these elites are more likely to get better teachers, educational resources, and even better schools, because they are more inclined to create private education and pay attention to the teacher-student ratio of each child. As mentioned in the article, these social elites usually support this kind of private education. In this way, many problems of public education are avoided, which is also an important factor leading to education inequality.

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    1. As these observations about localism suggest, the gap between belief in the American dream and its practice has demographic and historical as well as in-dividual and structural causes. In the United States, class is connected with race and immigration; the poor are disproportionately African Americans or recent immigrants, especially from Latin America. Legal racial discrimination was abolished in American schooling during the last half century (an amazing ac-complishment in itself), but prejudice and racial hierarchy remain, and racial or ethnic inequities reinforce class disparities. T

      By reading the article, there are many factors affecting the implementation of public education in the United States, both political and historical factors are very significant. The democratic control and regional elections reflected in the paper also strongly influence the economic development of public education and the allocation of learning resources to students. And historical factors are also obvious. American class and race issues will form certain obstacles to the development of public education. The article mentioned that although many American colleges and universities will abolish some systems of some racial classes, but prejudice still exists, and this kind of confrontational prejudice will keep American public education in an endless loop.

    2. Compared with a few decades ago, dropout rates have fallen, achievement scores have risen, resources are more equally distributed, children with dis-abilities have the right to an appropriate education, and black children are not required by law to attend separate and patently inferior schools. Yet this progress has met limits. Hispanics and inner city residents still drop out much more frequently than others, the gap between black and white achievement rose during the 1990s after declining in the previous decade, the achievement gap between students from lower-and higher-class families has barely budged, and poor students in poor urban schools have dramatically lower rates of literacy and arithmetic or scientific competence. Most importantly, life chances depend increasingly on attaining higher education, but class back-ground is as important as ever in determining who attends and finishes a four-year college.

      The phenomenon mentioned in the article clearly points out that the American Dream cannot give all Americans the equal and matching educational resources they deserve. Many Hispanics and blacks are unable to obtain some of the basic educational rights envisioned, and many are even ignored or denied. This clearly shows that the implementation of the concept of the American Dream still has great restrictions and postgraduate entrance examinations. How to reduce this educational burden and strive for educational equality are issues that future decision-makers need to consider.

    3. People who succeed get to keep the fruits of their labor and use them as they see fit; if they buy a home in a place where the schools are better, or use their superior resources to make the schools in their neighborhood better, their chil-dren will have a head start and other children will fall behind through no fault of their own. The paradox lies in the fact that schools are supposed to equal-ize opportunities across generations and to create democratic citizens out of each generation, but people naturally wish to give their own children an ad-vantage in attaining wealth or power, and some can do it.

      Deep divisions on education policy have made some already cracked policies more fragile. As described in the article, for example, in some school district housing policies, some families have enough money to buy houses in excellent school districts, and their children will have the opportunity to enter these excellent schools to receive excellent education. Those children whose family environment is not so good have been in a predicament, unable to receive a high-level education, and unable to find a good job when they come out into the society. This also violates the concept of equality of education for all.

    4. them good citizens who will maintain the nation's values and · In-stitutions, help them flouri~h, and pass them on to the next generation. The American public widely endorses both of these broad goals, values public ed-ucation, and supports it with an extraordinary level of resources. Despite this consensus Americans disagree intensely about the education policies that will best help us achieve this dual goal. In recent years disputes over educational issues have involved all the branches and levels of government and have affected millions of students.

      By reading this paragraph, I very much agree with the author. Education is very important for the cultivation of talents in a country. At the same time, public education plays a very important role in cultivating the quality of citizens, so I think the existence of public education is very beneficial to the vigorous development of a country. In any case, the development of this kind of public education still has certain difficulties, such as racial segregation. As mentioned in the article, this is also one of the differences that affects the realization of the American Dream.

    5. T HE AMERICAN DREAM IS A POWERFUL CONCEPT. It encourages each person who lives in the United States to pursue success, and it cre-ates the framework within which everyone can do it. It holds each person responsible for achieving his or her own dreams, while generating shared values and behaviors needed to persuade Americans that they have a real chance to achieve them. It holds out a vision of both individual success and the col-lective good of all.

      After reading this passage, I also think that the concept of the American Dream is very powerful, and it also offers a lot of hope to many people. This concept has provided some ideological support to countless people who are struggling. At the same time, this concept also enables many Americans to have team spirit and awareness, to achieve their dreams and realize their own values with common goals and values. moreover, this kind of vision has indeed brought a lot of hope and ideological framework to Americans.