Discussion and short essay

For this discussion, please answer the following (and don’t forget to reply to at least 2 other posters’ responses).

1. If you had to give your own primary and secondary school education a letter grade (an “F” basically meaning that you feel your schools/teachers/curriculum totally failed you, an “A” meaning you feel your education was as good as it could have been), what would it have been and why? What would you do to make education in this country (or the one in which you attended school) better?

2. Pick one thing from this module’s lecture (the Frontline documentary) or reading that you found particularly interesting or surprising. What was it and why?

For this module, please complete:

Read: Textbook,
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Chapter 11

Course Pack: “US Education: Still Separate and Unequal”

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(Cook, 2015)

“Education Gap Between Rich and Poor is Growing Wider”

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(Porter, 2015)

To receive full credit for this assignment, you must answer the following question(s) completely and correctly with specific, and properly cited, reference to course material. Answers should utilize complete sentences, be clearly and professionally written, and be free from spelling, grammar, word choice, and syntax (sentence construction) errors.

1. From the readings, choose and describe four different factors that help to explain why poor and/or minority children suffer worse educational outcomes than do their class and race-privileged peers.

2. From the Frontline Documentary, A Subprime Education, list two reasons why the rise of for-profit colleges in America is a problem. Some for-profit colleges, such as Corinthian, have been accused of engaging in fraudulent or “predatory” practices. Give one example.