I think that this is very important, since many students wouldn't know the importance of the course sequence in middle school. I didn't know the importance myself, I was just doing my classes and didn't think it was a big deal. I feel a lot of children from poorer families wouldn't know this either, which can greatly hurt them.

For me, this is really interesting because I never thought of middle school as being very important relating to college success of students. If anything, I would've thought that Elementary, High School and early childhood education are all a lot more important. Maybe I'll still believe that after reading, but I am curious as to why those years are so important.

It seems that I always see the fact that money spent on early education has very high yields in earning due to the factors listed, yet I always see the counterargument that the skills they learn in these years fade out by kindergarten. I always find this debate important for what we want to get out of early education. For me, I don't buy into fadeout too much, but think it is an interesting debate.

In general, this shows that the laws that the US enact often have the intention of keeping whites at the top. It's very tough because this means that the system isn't necessarily not working, since the system tries to keep the white class at the top. This will probably be a huge barrier to achieving ideal multicultural education for a while.

I think that this is very important note for teachers, because many of them may get discouraged by the students talking back or giving critical feedback and may believe that shifting paradigms simply won't work. If they accept that it will take time for students to learn and shift their opinions, and that is fine.

This would mean that the huge issue in transforming to teaching in a multicultural world would be racism itself. Unfortunately, I think that from what I learned, this is very true. It is clear that racism is still very prevalent and it will be very hard to overcome in order to get to a true multicultural world. I apologize if this may be obvious, I just think this is very true and can be frustrating.

I think that this is particularly important, because while integration can be a huge benefit to African American children, if the atmosphere of the schools don't welcome them, the impact of integration isn't very positive, if at all.

I think that the fact that our education is deeply local can be a problem since it only causes our education to be very different across the country where we are already very regionalized, and it makes it hard for the federal government to enact policies.

I find this part interesting because I remember learning that inclusion is generally a good thing with students that have learning disabilities, and it is interesting that there is evidence that this is true as well for students who are poor beside students who are more privileged. This only enhances my view that diversity is good across many contexts

This reminds me of the paradox of the American Revolution that I learned about in my history of education class. Basically, the concept of individualism was crucial to America, especially with the influence John Locke had on the declaration of independence. However, in order for the nation to stay together, especially when tensions were high, people needed something that would bind them together, and education played a huge role by engineering citizens. I think the paradox is important for understanding some of our issues.