Educational Policies

 What counts as educational policy: Jean Anyon

This is blog post is a personal reflection on my end. Throughout reading this text, it became to relatable as someone who spent my elementary childhood in a poverty, failing school district. some examples that I have personally struggled with was not having the amount of resources, and educational core curriculum that could have made middle and secondary education slightly more better. I did however get the chance to work in the Providence school system and experiencing first hand how students lacked resources due to poverty school environment, transportation and valuable educational opportunities that providence students need. I specifically remember in 2018, I believe in a article  where the Providence public school system had a received a terrible report on their educational well-being, from students not testing well on standardize tests, to students not developing social emotional skills. this report led a major rise in the refurbishing of most providence public school buildings. but what seemed good on the outside, only made things terrible on  the inside. Students still struggled and did not receive proper curriculum that interest them or challenged them.

Here is the 

article: https://reportcard.ride.ri.gov/201819/DistrictSnapshot?DistCode=28

Explore this article and the data!

Share out: As will be further discussed in class, This is a subject I am passionate about and hope to lead a discussion on what are the pros and cons of educational policies especially in our state.