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    1. Fangkun_Liu 12 Jan 2023
      Many issues in education policy have therefore come down to an apparent choice between the individual success of comparatively privileged students and the collective good of all students or the nation as a whole.

      I have always believed that individualism is a very selfish behavior pattern. I agree that individualism can make one's life better, or let one have a higher quality of life. But people live in a collective. In a collective, too strong individualism may harm the interests of the collective. There is an old Chinese saying that when there is no lip, the teeth will be very cold. It means that the collective is the umbrella of the individual. Individualism can exist, but I think we should put collective interests first.

    2. Fangkun_Liu 12 Jan 2023
      At the core of debates over one policy or another has often been a con-flict between what is (or seems to be) good for the individual and what is good for the whole; sometimes the conflict revolves around an assault on the valid-ity of the dream itself by certain groups of people. Because education is so im-portant to the way the American dream works, people care about it intensely and can strongly disagree about definitions, methods, and priorities.

      When we think about the conflict of educational policies, the distribution of educational resources, and such issues, we need to know that many things in the world can not be perfectly distributed. Maybe some cities need more education resources, but education resources are linked to the city's economy and other aspects, and the general economy of cities that need more education resources is not very good. This has led to a vicious circle. The cities that need education resources are very poor. Without education resources, the city will have no new talents, and then the city will become poorer.

    3. Fangkun_Liu 12 Jan 2023
      Nevertheless, this American dream is surpris-ingly close to what most Americans have believed through most of recent Amer-ican history.

      The American Dream is a very abstract concept. It can be a big thing. For example, to make America great again, or to want a better life. For different people, the American Dream is different, but we must be sure that everyone's American Dream is to become better, to make their living environment more comfortable and to have a foothold in today's society.

    4. Fangkun_Liu 12 Jan 2023
      Some schools and districts seized upon orders to desegregate as an opportunity to in-stitute desired reforms; others fought all efforts at desegregation and sought to minimize the changes it entailed.

      I think that under the circumstances of the United States at that time, the apartheid policy needs to be slowly released. Because although the policy may stipulate that the occurrence of racial discrimination is strictly prohibited, many acts may not be carried out in public, and there are also many acts of racial discrimination in private. Therefore, when the apartheid policy is released, it may be that the scenario that all ethnic groups are very harmonious in anticipation will not appear.

    5. Fangkun_Liu 12 Jan 2023
      Compared with a few decades ago, dropout rates have fallen, achievement scores have risen, resources are more equally distributed, children with dis-abilities have the right to an appropriate education, and black children are not required by law to attend separate and patently inferior schools

      The drop in dropout rate and the rise in scores are just symbols of the good development of a society. Only when the society is stable and developing actively will children consider going to school. If a society is in turmoil, most children may not consider going to school. The balanced distribution of resources is also a sign of social progress, because fairness is also a very important indicator pursued by a society. When the society is stable, the demand for fairness will be taken into account.

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