Here's an interesting article about the existence and negative effects of segregation in schools

Well, here it is, my topic choice is educational disparity relative to affluence. My driving question is how can we bridge the gap between students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds? I am going to read "The Shame of a Nation" and "Fire in the Ashes" by Jonathan Kozol. In November we will be visiting a school in PA to see alternate forms of education.

Post 3

Hello blog world it's me again, although I guess that's implied by the fact that its my blog. I still think that my project "Ramp it Up" is a brilliant idea, even though I didn't think of it myself. I need to get started reading. Mrs Wiener got us some books about the issue and found an organization that is already working to help alleviate the problem.

Blog #2

In our society there is tremendous disparity of educational resources between students on high an low income backgrounds. While students at private schools, or public schools in affluent areas, have access to tutors and adequate learning environments, students at schools with less financial stability are left to fend for themselves and are set behind simply due to a lack of resources and support. With the help of Mrs. Wiener and Penina I would like to develop a system of support to help level the playing field for the students who are not receiving adequate support from their schools and communities. We are not the first people to realize this issue and a couple of organizations have been created to help and books have been written on the inequality in education. I plan to either work with existing organizations- or even start a new one- to help be a part of the solution, but will first have to learn more about the issues. I anticipate that this will be a difficult undertaking but thankfully I have been blessed with the resources to make it happen; now I want to give that opportunity to others.

Response to Project

Frisch leads sounds like it is going to be a unique opportunity to develop my knowledge in a new and interesting area of study; that being said, I am not thrilled about the prospect of writing a substantial research paper during my senior year of high school. This is my first time writing a blog, and I am by no means a Bloggist- I could barely figue out how to log into the blog making website. You would think that as editor-in-chief of an online newspaper -FrischOffthePress- I would know a thing about blogs, but you would be mistaken. I know nothing about blogs or internet klans but I am committing to improving my blogginess and I think this project will be an excellent opportunity to do that. I think the best place to start when learning a new thing is to see what that thing actually is, so I went to Dictionary.com and looked up blog. "a Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other Web sites." Going through this definition I think I'm on the right path. 1. I am the writer (hence I am writing this blog) 2. I have told you of one of my experiences while describing my experiance logging on (or trying to) 3. I gave an observation about educational disparity 4. My oppinion is that I really don't want to do work my senior year but if I have to I'm going to make it count 5. here's an image (It's a city made of toothpick)

6. I linked to FrischOffthePress which is another FANTASTIC website I think I've really covered all of the bases of a classic blog and look forward to updating you on my project's progress.