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            This article explains how if a student is studying a topic he/she enjoys, they will be engaged in the course and perhaps will attend school regularly.  In this article it relates to ethnic studies in particular.  This article reminds me of how certain classes may influence students' future college major.  I didn't enjoy chemistry so I chose to never be involved with it again! It is hard for students who can't find their passions throughout high school as whole while everyone around them might be focusing on a goal, whether it be to get into a college, trade, or military.  If these aren't in any interest to the student, they might need more exposure to a different topic in order to become engaged in goal making form themselves.  When a school doesn't have the funding, teachers, or for whatever other reason for an abundance of extracurricular activities or specialty courses, these students may not find joy throughout ...

     After reading the short excerpt from Shannon Renkly and Katherine Bertolini I learned more about how certain schools are run depending on the model they choose.  I had never heard of either model before reading, but understood the deficit model if it was related to business.  Many thoughts rushed through my head as I was reading.  The quote in the introduction "...it is common practice for people to focus their attention on what is broken and how to fix it."   is a true statement...when the people care.  This quote reminded me of my last post when I discussed how during my high school years, administration changed our scheduling format every year to try to figure out how to make it better when in reality...I think most of us liked it how it was in the first place.       Adding to the point made about improvements, I find l ots of people in their 50s and older, (sometimes 40s,) like to work a certain way and don't like chan...

     My initial thought after reading this section was what year was this published? because there are policies and references to several figures, it was hard to tell if the information was current.  Jean Ayon mentions "today" multiple times throughout her writing so I was curious find out when this was posted.  After further research it appears that this article was posted around 2005, which answers most of my questions.  Lots of themes in this reading seemed to be dated such as "Paying women the same amount men are paid for comparable work would, according to one analysis, reduce poverty by 40 percent, as such a large percentage of poor people are women in low-wage jobs."   After looking into the most recent study on the wage gap it has successfully decreased in the last 20 years.  As of 2024, females now make 85% of what males make.  When this article was written (about 2000s) women were making 76% of what males make.  Another artic...

     Overall, I must say that I was shocked at how early the school model originated and how much it has improved since then.  I had no idea where the model of schooling had started and think it's funny how the author's attitude is it's how it's always been so that's the way it will be!   Personally, within my high school years, I do remember administration changing the schedule of classes every year.  They tried every subject with one dropping each day, block schedule, and any other way you can imagine (it was hard to keep track!)  I'm not sure what the schedule is now, but I hope they were able to settle on something that benefits both the students and teachers.       Throughout the reading there were a couple quotes that stood out to me.  "In other words, if you want students to really learn geometry, you can’t just have them listen, read, and repeat. You have to allow students to explore the subject on their own." This rela...