The Home-School Connection
What role does schools, family, and community play in gender, race, or class issues on a particular issue? Pick one topic to write about:
• Explore a particular ethnic group and research what barriers and success this particular group faces in education
• Cultural mismatch between students and teachers
• Language – ESL education
• Dual Immersion programs
• Using Ebonics in schools
• Special Education issues
• Standardized Testing
• Cultural assimilation and “acting white”/camouflaging intelligence
• Fitting in at school (sexual orientation, class differences, etc.).
• Issues of gender at home that may affect girls or boys’ behavior and academic success at school
• Peer pressure at school or in the neighborhood
• Issues of violence in schools and in neighborhoods
• Tracking in schools
• Health issues such as nutrition at home and at school (hunger, obesity, etc.)
• Is school curriculum relevant to students’ lives/multicultural education
• Children of immigrant parents face issues such as language brokering, parents unable to participate in parent/teacher meetings due to language barriers or work, and not being able to give them tangible, practical advice on how to navigate the college going system
• Physical decay of schools and communities
• Issues that principals and administration face in dealing with some of the above concerns
• How the “cool pose” culture clashes with school culture
• Learning service requirements or senior projects in high schools
• Teaching empathy in schools through volunteer work, animals, and/or plants
• Use of school uniforms to prevent gang affiliation clothing items or classism, etc.