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Does educational opportunity remain the key to success in the United States?
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Millennial Students Express Dissatisfaction with America’s Educational System
April 5, 2012
In our “land of opportunity” where pursuit of the American dream harvests freedom, happiness, and prosperity in life, who is given the key to set this bountiful harvest free? Is it any and every individual who works hard in school, is motivated to reach beyond excellence, and perseveres through...
Julie Norris (Susquehanna University) on Educational Opportunity
April 2, 2012
Educational opportunity remains the key to success in the United States. From the time of our birth we are bred to believe that with our educational success comes the American Dream. If we fail to accomplish the highest level of education then we have failed our pledge toward the American Dream....
David Greenblatt (University of Maryland-College Park) on Educational Opportunity
April 2, 2012
There are a great many professional and technical skills that are undervalued. Many careers that are vital to the American economy do not benefit from the a traditional liberal arts education—indeed, the opportunity cost of acquiring an education is far to great for many individuals. For these...
Brandon Sklar (University of Colorado-Denver) on Educational Opportunity
April 2, 2012
If there ever was a single thing that could be used to separate humans from every other life-form, it would be our brain. What is most remarkable about the human brain is its size. Weighing in around an average of 1,300 grams, it eclipses the weight of every single animal with our similar body...
Jeff Ramdass (St. Francis College) on Educational Opportunity
March 30, 2012
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
– Aristotle
One of the greatest strengths of the United States has always been our ability to offer a fair educational opportunity to the citizens of the world. Our schools and universities have always had...
– Aristotle
One of the greatest strengths of the United States has always been our ability to offer a fair educational opportunity to the citizens of the world. Our schools and universities have always had...
Sarah Baran (Georgetown) on Educational Opportunity
March 30, 2012
Educational opportunity is still the key to success in the United States, in terms of both personal achievement, and yet also in regards to the national well-being of our country. Educational opportunity means access to a well-supported school system—elementary through high school—that adequately...
Amrita Sankar (Dartmouth) on Educational Opportunity
March 30, 2012
The myth of the American dream is that each member of society has equal opportunity to attain a comfortable life in this country. However, the cracks of our system reveal faults in the foundation of our equality Empirical evidence proves that the disparaging inequalities of socioeconomic levels...
Ian Diaz (Fairfield) on Educational Opportunity
March 30, 2012
Equal access to great education should be a right, not a privilege. I believe if the framers of the Constitution would have predicted how society has evolved were the only way to succeed, or even be able to makes ends meet if by pursuing higher education it would have been included in the...
Manuel Peralta (Tufts) on Educational Opportunity
March 29, 2012
After college, I volunteered for a nonprofit dedicated to empowering inner city youth in San Francisco. I translated documents into Spanish, which teachers would utilize to educate Spanish-speaking parents about higher education opportunities awaiting their children after high school. The nature...
James Chan (Florida) on Educational Opportunity
March 29, 2012
I strongly agree that educational opportunity is the key to success in this nation. My parents immigrated to this country from China and Jamaica without formal education. My mother had less than a high school education while my father only had a high school education from Jamaica. Growing up, my...
Tyler Bishop (Vanderbilt) on Educational Opportunity
March 29, 2012
Fifty percent. One-Half. One out of two. Any way you look at it, the number of students in our country who have the opportunity to pursue higher education is appalling. We live in a world in which education literally plays a direct and massive role in all facets of life – attaining jobs, status,...
Cynthia Florentino (Central Florida) on Educational Opportunity
March 29, 2012
I like to call myself a child of “opportunity.” Educational opportunity, that is. I am young, bright, and live in the United States, the land of opportunity. I can rule the world if I wanted, but only with the proper education. When I moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States three...
Kate Kelly (UPenn) on Educational Opportunity
March 28, 2012
Picture Jessica, a nine-year-old girl living with her struggling family in the urban neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Jessica’s parents together work four jobs to support a family of five and their oldest daughter often serves as a babysitter for her siblings. She attends a local public school...
Mark Laichena (UNC) on Educational Opportunity
March 28, 2012
You could build a convincing argument that education opportunity remains key to success in the US just by using statistics: high school dropouts are three times as likely to be unemployed as Americans with a bachelor’s degree, while a Georgetown study found that even graduates from the...
Timothy Robbins (Maine) on Educational Opportunity
March 28, 2012
In an increasingly globalized and competitive environment, educational opportunity is a fundamental requirement for success in the United States. While educational opportunity is a key component of success, the access to such opportunities in America is not equal. This nationwide disparity in...
Jonathan Padilla (Harvard) on Educational Opportunity
March 27, 2012
This January I picked up John Keegan’s Churchill: A Life and founded that it was immensely difficult to put down. From war stories in South Africa to political intrigue in the House of Commons, Churchill was a bold person who dared to speak truth in spite of the ramifications that such courage...
1 CommentMichael Clegg (Occidental College) on Educational Opportunity
March 27, 2012
The first question the older curious gentlemen asked me was “What’s the difference between you and them?” Confused by the question I asked the gentleman, who was an aide to the Mayor, to explain what he meant. He said that the Princeton University Preparatory Program graduates more than 95...
Clara Gustafson (Georgetown) on Educational Opportunity
March 27, 2012
Education is the bedrock of any innovative and productive society. I have always believed this, because since I was young my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins have all instilled in me the importance of a good education. An education is not a good that can be bought and...
Rex Young (University of Virginia) on Educational Opportunity
March 23, 2012
In Lee County, Virginia, a short drive from the annual Remote Area Medical program where much of the region’s medical care is delivered in Wise County horse barns, there are other talented young men much like myself but with incredibly contrasting futures from my own. Most will finish high school...
Ala Ahmad (University of Texas-Austin) on Educational Opportunity
March 23, 2012
Sophomore Nataly Lopez knows exactly how much a semester costs at Baruch College in New York. An illegal Ecuadorian immigrant, Nataly works a full time job while attending school to save the $2, 805 she needs to attend another semester of school. As an illegal immigrant she is not eligible for...
2 CommentsMariama Kurbally (Rhode Island College) on Educational Opportunity
March 22, 2012
We need to recognize that the most critical domestic problem in the United States today is the widening of the educational gap between the children of the haves and those of the have-nots. We live in a society where your zip code determines your level of success. Education is the most powerful...
1 CommentSpencer Nelson (Stanford) on Educational Opportunity
March 22, 2012
Perhaps the closest thing to a universally shared American value is our belief in social mobility. The American Dream is impossible without the availability of the skills required to succeed in life – derived almost entirely from education. A lack of educational opportunity drives inequality and...
Gavin Mathis (George Washington University) on Educational Opportunity
March 21, 2012
Millions of students wake up every morning, pack their books and walk to schools that are failing them and their country. For the first time in the nation’s history, many education scholars fear the current generation of high school students will be less educated than their parents. In order for...
1 CommentAndres Gonzalez (UC Irvine) on Educational Opportunity
March 20, 2012
For the past four to five years I have seen the University of California struggle in a battle to maintain its core values of accessibility, affordability, and quality. However, these years I have seen how in a declining economy, one of these core values must be sacrificed for the sake of the...
Colin Steele (Georgetown) on Educational Opportunity
March 20, 2012
Educational opportunity is the key to success not only in the United States, but for the United States. While the quantity and quality of one’s education will no doubt differ by circumstance and specialty, what seems incontrovertible is that at least some post-secondary education will be a...
Tyler Bugg (University of Georgia) on Educational Opportunity
March 16, 2012
The contemporary discourses surrounding education would overwhelmingly represent it in terms of access. Pervading the country’s educational infrastructure are heated and often partisan debates on affirmative action policies, of undocumented immigrant enrollment in public universities, of campus...
Joann Park (University of Southern California) on Educational Opportunity
March 16, 2012
News articles regurgitate the same information again and again. America is behind other countries in education, public schools are failing, massive budget cuts are making it harder for teachers and parents, etc..
David Spears (George Fox University) on Educational Opportunity
March 16, 2012
A hundred and four years before Neil Armstrong placed the first footprint on the moon, a Frenchman named Jules Verne accurately predicted that an American would be the first to do so. His leap of intuition was based on his understanding that, “The Yankees, the world’s best mechanics, are...