Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter One Questions:
1. How should educators expand on the different cultures in the classroom? But not focus too much or too little on another culture?
2. What are some ways that education professionals can help expand (or develop) critical thinking amoung children? Does critical thinking govern different reace/culture groups differently?
3. Government and teh Bill of Rights states that people are individuals and have freedom, but children are not always taught these concepts. How can students feel like they are free no matter what they look like?
4. Some people are set in their ways with how they think and how they act, how can young people not be threatened when they are threated wrongly, but have done nothing wrong?
5. What forms of education work best for certain culture groups?
6. How do social justice and discrimination differ from one another?

Chapter Two Reading:
While reading this chapter I never realized how many different groups immigrated to different countries. This chapter was a little difficult for me because I grew up in an area that was highly populated with one main race of whites and not very many other groups. A lot of the groups think positively or negatively about one another and I do not believe that either of the groups is wrong. But they are trying to get their points across. Clildren learn race/gender biases at a very young age and these biases stay with the children for the rest of their lives. The government treies to do a lot of work with the differnet groups, but I think it has hurt these groups more than it has helped them. No Child Left Behind seems like a good concept at its time, but some states/cities/school districts/schools can not achieve what is expected of them. Schools are more often put further behind because of this system.

Chapter Two Questions:
1. Why do you think immigration was at a high from 1991-2000 in a lof of different countries?
2. How do immigrants and refugees differ from one another?
3. With the expansion of immigration in many countries how has landscaping been changed or altered?
4. Do you think that children who are immigrants or their parents who are immigrants are at a lower level acaemically/physically/mentally/emotionally then other students who are not immigrants?
5. Is being accepted into your ethnic group a priority to everyone? Why do some value it more than others?