The Importance Of Urban Education

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I used to think that urban education simply meant education that went on in the cities, but from what I have learned is that, yes education goes on in cities, but it goes beyond that. Urban education is not so simple due to all of the dynamics and subsections that fall under it, such as the students and how they are taught, how the teachers teach vs. how the school/state want them to teach, the students learning, school funding, and many other factors that I used to not be aware of. As a whole urban education is the education which many, like myself, have experienced; I have learned a new view to education, re-evaluated my own, changed my view on education, defined urban education in my own way, discovered the factors within it, and have some …show more content…

I would help each individual student because I believe that all children are capable of learning and have high potential built up inside of them. To Teach: The Journey, in Comics, they would have learned how to treat students equally and how to improve an environment by putting the students first before the regulations. As stated by Ayers, “Labelling students has become an epidemic in our schools - a toxic habit with no known limit. Supervisors, administrators, even some teachers mumble knowingly about “soft signs” or LIC (Low Impulse Control), ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)... the whole alphabet soup … the categories keep splintering, getting nuttier as they go, and the problem is that all of it lowers our sights, misdirects our vision, suppresses possibility. Labels are limiting - they conceal more than they reveal” (18). As this quote displays, labeling is a common mistake that many do, but it restricts us from seeing the whole student just to satisfy the school and label children based on first impressions. Although becoming a teacher is something that I might want to major in I would want some issues regarding the urban educational system to be adjusted before I make any big

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