Week 2_Julia Wells_Section 4

The Untold History of Modern US Education gave a small preview of how the education system today came to be. I was not quite surprised that multi-billion corporations took over the education system because schools need money to get books, supplies, remodeling done, and new technology. The business and companies that have money, have the power. I knew that Europe’s education system was different from the United States from a foreign exchange student that visited my high school. I find it interesting and I would like to see how the United States would work under an education system where further education had students go train at their desired trade rather than attending a college for four years. Following how we got to the Common Core System was comical to me. I know many people criticize the Common Core Method because it is not an accurate way to measure intelligence or education, but then I wonder, how else could the education system be done. To me, the basic criteria for an education system would have to be fair to everyone, the material taught must be updated and consistent to each student and it must be affordable.

I read Untold History first, and then I read Asian Americans and Affirmative Action. This had me realize and connect other points from Untold History to Asian Americans. In lecture, when we briefly talked about the education system and Asian Americans, Professor Valverde mentioned that white superiority is declining and the whites are just as affected as any other race, even though the whites held the majority for most of the country’s history. The Asian American population is steadily increasing, and education systems are trying to prevent the Asian Americans from having the majority in classrooms. However, whether Asian Americans have the majority or not, they are discriminated in each circumstance as read in the article of Nancy Chung Allred. To me, I feel that Asian Americans have a lose-lose type of scenario because they are first discriminated by color then discriminated by culture and numbers and even further discriminated by stereotypes.

Is the education just in stating that they want a diverse school population and deny a perfectly qualified student just because they did not make the percentage cut off? And how did stereotypes come to be for Asians? Did people overly exaggerate an actual truth about Asian customs?

Sources: 

-February 2013. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://e4youth.org/blog/2013/02/

-(n.d.). Retrieved from https://stjohns.digication.com/eng1000c_investigation_3_model_minority/Digital_Text

-Hughes, L. E. (2007). The influence of multiple risk factors on WMSD risk and evaluation of measurement methods used to assess risks (Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Tech).

-The Untold History of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers. (2016, June 18). Retrieved January 13, 2019, from https://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/28/untold-history-modern-u-s-education-founding-fathers/