And Justice For All
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is the fall of 1950. Harry S. Truman is the President of the United States of
America. The "I Love Lucy Show," starring Lucille Ball, enters its first television
season. As the world revolves around them, two young girls are winding down from
summer vacation and preparing for the arrival of school. Tina and Lynn have lived in the
same neighborhood all of their lives. They both love to roller-skate down the street,
shrieking with laughter. They like to collect shiny marbles and trade secrets while they
play jacks. Tina and Lynn are the best of friends, oblivious to the fact
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Melba Patillo Beals, says 41 years later, "I
think it made me a stronger person, really; it made me realize people are all the same, that
you should judge people by what's in their hearts, not by the color of their skin" (Beals
196).
Governor Orville Faubus posted the National Guard at the entrance of the school
to prevent the Little Rock Nine from entering the school on September 2, 1957. On
September 23, an uncontrollable riot had broken out and President Eisenhower was
forced to respond. He called in the 101st Airborne to restore order and to protect the
Black students. For the entire school year, the federal troops escorted the students to
class. In 1958, Governor Faubus shut down the entire public school system rather than
comply with the court's orders. Another lawsuit was filed and the Supreme Court ruled
that the state of Arkansas must reopen its schools and become integrated (Harris 54-56).
It was one thing to demand an end to segregation, but it was another thing to
achieve it. Initially, school districts that were ordered to eliminate the dual
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This was also known as enrollment plans, theoretically allowing black students
to attend white schools on the other side of town. Minority-to-majority is similar to
freedom-of-choice. Students who were part of the majority race. These two plans
suffered from a lack of participation. The magnet schools on the other hand, had a more
successful result. The magnet schools offered advanced programs and enhanced
curriculums that were designed to attract the most intelligent of all races. Because the
academic requirements were high; there was a quota for the number of students admitted,
and added financial costs, voluntary participation was limited (Blausterin 122-129).
In December 1977, the Seattle, Washington school board voted to approve a
Comprehensive citywide student assignment plan, "designed to desegregate the city's
112 schools over a two-year period called the Seattle Plan. Seattle set a national record.
No other major American city has voluntarily adopted a comprehensive mandatory
program of school desegregation. The Seattle school board took this unprecedented
action to avoid a threatened lawsuit and years of court (Futtrell
In the article Mind-Sets and Equitable Education, Carol S. Dweck studies the link between mind-sets and beliefs and the influence it has on student success. This article examines how beliefs about how you learn impact the manner in which you learn. It is stated that growth mind-set as opposed to fixed mind-set promotes student success and achievement. Growth mind-set is the idea that intelligence is not something individuals are born with, but is rather a skill that individuals can develop through hard work and perseverance. Fixed mind-set opposes this idea as it views intelligence as an immutable trait individuals are born with. The article mentions that not only personal mind-set impacts an individual’s success but how they perceive the mind-set
Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953. 1st September 2002. New Article. 11th March 2014.
While reading the book Mindset by Carol S. Dweck I learned much about my personal learning style, the realization about how I work with others, and how much an attitude or preconceived idea can influence how I live my life. This also directly impacts my thoughts as an aspiring teacher. All of which have made me come to the realization that as a teacher I will need to be aware of not only my mindset but also be aware of how students can be influenced by their mindsets.
in the hands of the new president, Harry S. Truman. On July 25, 1945, President
“Truman, Harry S.” The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Columbia: Columbia, 1994. Online. Internet. Available at HTTP: http://www.historychannel.com/. 24 Sept. 2001.
Musher-Eizenman, D. R., Holub, S. C., & Arnett, M. (2003). Attitude and Peer Influences on
1945 and that is when World War Two had just ended also this is when
The fact is, by the time a child is a toddler, they start noticing color differences, and then in school, teachers teach not to discriminate and to just look over the difference and live equally. That would seem like enough. But unfortunately, schools aren’t the only influence that children have, because while schools teach one thing, parents can also teach them differently. For example; let’s say that one day a child is in school, and the teacher says three plus three equals six. But, if the parents tell their child that three plus three equals five and NOT six, then that’s what the child starts to believe. Telling the child that every day, they start thinking that it’s true. So, the parent is teaching something totally different than the school. So, if that works with home, it also works with school. Therefore making an easy way to teach something into the minds of the child. Then lets say that the child got to high school and was asked; whats three plus three? The child will answer "five' and believe its correct, because that is what was taught by the parents.
“We live in a world where justice is skewed.” This statement can be interpreted in many different ways. I personally think that this statement means that the way our justice system can be altered in good ways and bad ways. In the many stories we have read there were different situations that altered the justice system. Many people view justice in different ways. Throughout the stories we have read, there were many different ways that justice was skewed, both positively and negatively. No way is particularly better than the other, however most people favor one way or another. Thsi statement is true in many situations and can be applied to our lives.
Does justice require that people are given what they deserve? According to Pojman (2006), justice is the constant and perpetual will to give every man his due. This would seem to imply that for justice to be carried out, people must get what they deserve. But there is some debate over what being just entails; to be just is to be fair, but is being fair truly to give people what they deserve?
is related to their beliefs and their aspirations, their opinions and their world view. As world view
Of course I looked “justice” up in the dictionary before I started to write this paper and I didn’t find anything of interest except of course a common word in every definition, that being “fair”. This implies that justice would have something to do with being fair. I thought that if one of the things the law and legal system are about is maintaining and promoting justice and a sense of “fairness”, they might not be doing such a spiffy job. An eye for an eye is fair? No, that would be too easy, too black and white. I could cite several examples where I thought a judge’s or jury’s ruling was not fair, but I won’t because frankly, we’ve all seen those.
Liberal philosopher, John Rawls, has been credited as being one of the largest contributors to the field of social justice of the twentieth century. In his book `Justice as Fairness', Rawls describes his views on the issue of justice in a social sense and outlines the major features of his theory of justice. From his discussions on this topic, one could derive a legitimate assumption of how Rawls' would apply his views on justice to the question of how we should respond to poverty, this I have done in the final segment of my essay.
The fundamental question of what attitudes are cannot be answered easily, as many psychologists offer differing definitions. These range from simply describing them as likes and dislikes, to the definition provided by Tiffin and McCormick, in Attitude and Motivation(1971), where they summarize attitudes as being, “a frame of reference that influences the individual’s views or opinions on various topics and situations, and influences their behavior.” It is widely accepted, however, that attitudes include both beliefs and values. Beliefs, although considered to be based on the knowledge gained about the world around us, can vary greatly in their importance and influence, and therefore ibn their resistence to change. For instance, an individual’s belief in God is highly influential, not only on its own but also in its effect on many other beliefs held by the individual, whereas a belief that eating late at night may cause indigestion is far less central and influential in its effect. Beliefs, both major and minor, form the cognitive component of attitu...
Values, norms and culture are essential to society’s survival. Roles and standards give groups within a society structure and allow members to know what’s expected of them, socially. As a teacher, parent or leader of a group, you’re expected to teach the group to be conventional and conform to society. It is basic human nature to have the desire to pass on our own values, norms and culture to our kids and/or those we are in command of. We often resort to educating them based on values we’ve been taught by society.