Teaching After Brown v Board of Education

These speakers argue that the success rate of students with a different ethnicity vary drastically and that there are no real funding or implementations in helping to correct the gap post secondary education creates for the future of our generation. I agreed and disagreed with the speakers. Gloria mentioned that in the past it was feasible for a person to exit high school and go into the workforce or military and have it be financially stable in providing for a family or themselves. Now our culture and economic deficits require us all to achieve a post secondary education. With this being hard for the people in the culture of power I shudder to think what it is like to other people who do not have the opportunities provided to them that they so rightfully deserve. The "No child left behind" policy had to be pulled off the table because it was literally IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to achieve that notion. How sad is that? That a child will not be able to achieve an education because they are either unstimulated, unaccustomed or just from a low income family that cannot provide the child with the schooling they need to succeed. I agree that the pedagogy we have implemented in our culture is very wrong and very hard for anyone to achieve. We should be investing money in our teachers and boards of education to fire those who are NOT implementing change and hiring proactive people to take the place of those who continue to enforce our current flawed pedagogy. I agree with Gloria when she says that we need more people to teach us that are culturally different from the white student and that it would benefit everybody to show that those people should be respected and a model for changing the pedagogy and forming and implementing one that matched a different culture than just the culture of power. 

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