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  1. Jan 2023
    1. ulticulturalism compels educators to recognize the nar-row boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom. It forces us all to recognize our complicity in accepting and perpetuating biases of any kind.

      Seeking common ground while preserving differences is a very important part of the process. It is not a matter of keeping your mouth shut about prejudice, but of being bold enough to talk, communicate and understand. This is the most effective way to address the differences brought about by cultural differences. Just like religious differences are the same, as long as you don't insult the underlying logic of others, but talk and understand with respectful feelings, I think these are acceptable. The best way to accept differences and prejudices is to understand each other, and when you understand each other you will be able to cope with all kinds of situations and understand what motivates others in making such actions.

    2. Hence, educators are poorly prepared when we actually confront diversity.

      This is what I think that when the times are updated like today, the direction of choosing teachers should also become multicultural to increase the affinity of not only the students to the teachers but also the affinity in the team of teachers. For multicultural students to integrate together and learn well, it is also essential for the faculty to be multicultural. When they demonstrate that even different cultural backgrounds can integrate well together, students will naturally follow suit. And I think it's important to mention culture-related things, not just to avoid talking about them, but to face the problems so that they can be solved.

    3. To some extent, we all know that whenever we address in the classroom subjects that stu-dents are passionate about there is always a possibility of con-frontation, forceful expression of ideas, or even conflict.

      I think it's important to respect students' passions. It is that whether it is correct or not, it should not be scoffed at. Even if it is wrong, as everyone, both parents and teachers should respectfully hear him out and then in give more comprehensive guidance, instead of hearing a false start and start harshly blaming. I think that is very disrespectful, hurts the child's self-esteem, and doesn't necessarily put the child on the right path. I understand that this can be an emergency response, but educators should always go for the best solution.

    4. for example, severa! white professors made comments that could be viewed as horribly racist and the students left the group to share what was said around the college.

      I would say it's a rather grim phenomenon. And it is because the public opinion environment is created by the whole society, not only the teachers in the school, but each one can be the teacher of another one. People in the neighborhood environment who say some bad things, or some bad people you meet surfing the internet. All of these people will push education in a bad direction. Only professors and teachers, people who can point the light, tell students in advance what is good and what is bad, and impress them, which will make the whole environment good.

    5. we must acknowledge that our styles of teaching may need to change. Let's face it: most of us were taught in classrooms where styles of teachings reflected the hotion of a single norm of thought and experience, which we were encouraged to believe was universal.

      I wouldn't say that this is a greater challenge for teachers, but rather I think it makes sense for emerging teachers to exist in this day and age. Perhaps the more senior teachers are not used to the multicultural learning environment, while the newer teachers are coming out of that environment. Or sometimes it is good to increase the number of international teachers, after all, they come from the international environment, and will naturally be better in this kind of integration.

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    1. or every $1 spent on early education and care, $8 is saved on crime, public assistance, supplemental schooling,

      This data is IMPRESSIVE. I think it's a great way to get people to invest in education. Whether it's the rich investing in schools or the poor investing in themselves, or a way to get the government to take education seriously. Because it's true that there are a lot of people who leave home and become criminals because they don't have a good education. There are also people who become vagrants and survive on public assistance because they are not able to get a foothold in society.

    2. The surest way to build wealth-as indicated by the real in real estate-is to own a home.

      That's why I think it's really hard to eliminate inequality like that. It's hard to get people to learn at a very young age with the goal of getting rich, and that makes it easier to get lost because the means to get rich are not exactly good. And rich people can even sit at home and wait for the house and property they own to provide them with a constant stream of rent, so they can eat and not have to go out and fight to go out and make money. So, reality is really harsh for those who have gone through hardships.

    3. "Why are people poor?"

      This question sounds a little bit irony. The rule of the world is that rich people can become richer through the property they have in their hands. In this case, there is basically no chance for the poor to turn over. People may say there are more opportunities now, but there are still plenty of things to be surpassed or ruled by the rich. Maybe education is the only means to solve this thing, but, the path must be a difficult one. Going to eradicate the huge gap between the rich and the poor is something that is difficult to do.

    4. 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.

      Perhaps because I didn't really understand K12 education in the United States, I thought it would be a little more comprehensive. In my country, the nine years of education in elementary and middle school actually teaches students to a greater extent only how to take tests. If one doesn't want to take a test then they are simply eliminated and begin a very strange life. There is no enlightenment at all in the direction of the student's life choices, and using pure exams to screen for talent, I think this is unreasonable. Because not everyone is trying to take the test.

    5. Many of us choose to address the equity gap by struggling to supply universal access to high-quality, free, and appropriate public education.

      This is also a point that I think is very unfair. If the poor have to spend a lot of money to get their children into a quality education, because of the inequality of birth will lead to such pressure on the family, they pay tuition fees that they can not afford, naturally there will be more pressure on them, and this pressure can even break the child, and add anxiety to the child's school.

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    1. 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

      I think this is a very serious matter. I happened to be talking to a Chinese mom who immigrated here not too long ago. In her eyes her kids came to California her volleyball and grew up as volleyball specials. She thought that volleyball as a sport just takes time and space, and in that case there are a lot of requirements for funding, which eliminates some of those who cannot participate. This is true of sports and it is true of education. Funding is like a rope that traps those who are poor. This includes different status, different race, different economic level.

    2. The gap between beliefs and actions not only leads to contention and con-fusion, it also generates policies that are irrational in the sense that they are inconsistent with evidence of what works or are not based on any evidence at all

      This is another important point, too, in that some measures just seem outrageous, or are felt to be poorly implemented by those who implement them, and policymakers may not actually notice such things happening in the first place. That said such errors usually cause bigger problems, especially on the more acute racial issues or multicultural exchanges. Irvine in particular, I noticed that this cultural intermingling is more widespread and should be brought to attention.

    3. 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.

      This paradox is a common problem that arises now, and it lies in the fact that everyone actually wants to give their offspring some good future, or that some people don't want to spend money on their offspring and don't realize the responsibility they carry. I think both of these situations are there, and together they are tearing up the whole educational environment. The demand of the rich to give their children a better education has created a supply and private high schools have emerged. And some people are more selfish and unwilling to spend their money on their children or even take the time to cooperate with the school, leading to the other extreme.

    4. also to make 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.

      Here is a definition of education at its best. To inspire potential, to have national values, to help them become better so that such a better education can be reproduced to the next generation. This is the value of education, to nurture the future. The development of human society as a whole cannot be separated from the present, but also from the future. Education in the present is the foundation for the future, and if a country wants to prosper and revive, then laying the foundation is essential, and education is essential.

    5. Public schools are where it is all supposed to start-they are the central institutions for bringing both parts of the dream into practice.

      I agree with this. public school is always the starting point for everyone, everyone should be educated, it's our birthright, and it's a common way we start to accept society and become familiar with it. Although I think the environment and atmosphere of the FAMILY is the first part, this is usually full of too many variables. The wealth of the family, the personality and temperament of the parents, all of these determine the child to a large extent, which is why public school education becomes especially important.

    6. 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 a

      I do believe that American Dream is important, just like each different country has their core belief so that the whole country can work together. My earliest 12 years of education came from China, where we were to build a new China with socialist values, to be the pillars of the country and to build. American Dream is an educational philosophy that embodies the multiculturalism of the United States and can be implemented on an individual basis.