Monday, May 12, 2014

The Bridge to Equity

             I am so excited about our trip to DC! We have worked for four long, strenuous months and it is finally paying off. I wish that I could appropriately express my gratitude to those that contributed to our going to DC, but it is almost impossible. They have done so much.

 I am so extremely excited for the trip and am only anxious for the airplane ride. I am eager to meet and jump right into the Washington DC atmosphere. I want to get the insight of every person within my plane of interest, which is “Lack of Resources.” I jumped on this topic, because in my opinion, it is the reason for all of the other issues within inner-city schools. I feel that it affects us the most directly. If the issue of lack of resources was non-existent the cycle of poverty would be broken. The reason that children are not appropriately learning is because they are not offered the same resources that “successful” children are. This lack of resource topic leads to my further detailed research of “The Thirty Million Word Gap”- the gap of words that resides between low socioeconomic and high socioeconomic status children. My research in DC will focus on these two topics and early childhood education, because I believe that early childhood development and education is key to future success. I am so excited to see where DC, the research I do in DC, and the time that I spend with my SOLE group in DC affects me and my growth into the solving of this problem known as education inequity. 

-Lena

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