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Yet this progress has met limits. Hispanics and inner city residents still drop out much more frequently than others, the gap between black and white achievement rose during the 1990s after declining in the previous decade, the achievement gap between students from lower-and higher-class families has barely budged, and poor students in poor urban schools have dramatically lower rates of literacy and arithmetic or scientific competence.
This reminds me of when I watched the movie "Freedom Writers". Which hispanics, asians, and blacks were deemed as at-risk teenagers. They came from family or relations to gang violence, drug abuse, abuse, broken homes, etcs and the school treated them as a waste of resources. Only those who could afford a better education had a chance at a better life and it showed it. Their 5th grade reading level proved that those who came from nothing had a harder time of making it anywhere without a support of an education or a system that cared.
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Because most Americans now believe that the American dream should be available to all American citizens, public schools in the United States have made real progress toward enabling everyone to pursue success as they understand it.
It's mandated law for Americans to attend public school (unless they do private school), but even for non US citizens they are required to go to school. Which makes it mandated for public schools to provide that information and to be informed of the American dream. It is meant to be available for those who reside in the US.
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Public schools are where it is all supposed to start-they are the central institutions for bringing both parts of the dream into practice.
Do private schools provide a different take on the American Dream? How much does it vary or is it similar to how we go through the American Dream from a public school stand point? Is it part of their practice, and if not what do they do instead?
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T HE AMERICAN DREAM IS A POWERFUL CONCEPT
I feel like nowadays, the American Dream is a controversial take. As I believe apart of the America Dream has died. I believe it's still exist, but now it's flawed or not what it use to be. I'm grateful enough that I'm able to fulfill an American Dream for my parents. Though that dream was at the cost of my parents. They gave up everything for me. They don't get their own dream despite coming here. If anything they had it pretty hard here and that's not something I take for granted. The least I can do is fulfill maybe a klife they wouldn't wanted.
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