Isabel Fajardo
AO3
Week O2
It is well known in history that people on top marginalize
others they view as lesser in order to keep the power in their favor. In “The
Untold History of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers,” a select few
powerful, rich men devised a “strategy … to keep the working middle class from
ever rising to power through controlling of the public education systems in the
United States” (Lee 2014). I recognize most of the names on the ‘Titans of
Industry’ as popular buildings, institutions, businesses, and it is a little
disconcerting to think that the families of the ‘Titans’ are still rich,
thriving, and hold immense power – through funds of course.
What shocked me the
most was the immense amount of money sectioned off for public education. I
personally think that this article should have further defined what exactly constitutes
as public education. Are they talking about K-12 grade public education? Public
university and college institutions? Or perhaps both? The article talks about
the No Child Left Behind Act and national score testing, which leads me to
believe it is about K-12 education. From my teachers in high school, I know
that public education was a mess, due to the different standards some states
have from the others. It is hard to balance between teaching toward the test
and teaching kids to have a love for learning, since there are outside forces like
funding for the school that come into play. Though this article provided a lot
of background about the formation of education in the United States, I do not
think it gave enough information for me to formulate an opinion on how to fix
the problems it proposed.
References:
1.
Lee, J. (2014, January 28). The Untold History
of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers. Waking Times. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
2.
[TedX Talks]. (2013, November
2013). Why are so many of our teachers and schools so
successful? John Hattie at TEDxNorrkoping [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwJXUieD0U
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