Blog Post May 12th, 2017

This week there was not much on education policies regarding DeVos and Trump. Although, there was this issue brought to the public attentions after this past week. This week DeVos gave a graduation speech that did not go as planned. In the article “Betsy DeVos Says We Should ‘Start Fresh’ on Higher Ed. Here’s Where … [Read more…]

Week of 05/05/17

This weeks I came across an article that actually made me really frustrated in a way. This article was titled “Arizona lawmaker: Let’s end compulsory schooling and stop forcing education ‘down everybody’s throat’” by Racheal Strauss. Even Strauss agrees that this idea is crazy. She states that “A legislator in Arizona has said that there should … [Read more…]

Blog: Week of 4/28/17

This week I came across an article that explains the thoughts of pulling federal regulations out of the K-12 education. In the article “Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education” by S.A. Miller, explains how Trump feels that we should leave all of the education rules to each individual state. When he states “My administration … [Read more…]

Blog Post: 4/20/17

This week I came across an article that was actually very similar to the ideas I expressed in my first paper this semester. It is the idea of standardized exams. These exams are considered to be a way of testing the knowledge of a student prior to them moving on to a more advanced subjects. The article “34 … [Read more…]

Drawing Your Conclusions Assignment

While being apart of the dominant secondary discourse of dentistry there are ways of transferring.It is possible for someone to transfer the ideas, or values learned to a different part of the discourse. In dentistry there are subunits within the discourse. This sub units use the same language to make connections between specific practices within … [Read more…]

Revise Two Paragraphs Assignment

In my revisions my main goal was to clarify my ideas on the building task within the dentistry discourse. In both my paragraphs there was a lack of identifying what discourse dentistry was apart of, so within I made sure to mention clearly what discourse I was identifying.  I also started in the second paragraph … [Read more…]

Blog Post Week: 4/14/17

Earlier in this assignment of writing weekly prompts about events happening within our education system, I wrote about the topic of transgender rights. It was when Trump didn’t favor the right of transgenders having their own bathrooms, or have specific rights to their bathroom choices. I found that this one transgender kid had the willpower … [Read more…]

Restructuring and Post-Draft Outline Assignment: Blog

While revising my paper it really helped to look at my peer reviewers comments prior to trying to fix anything about my paper. Also after reading the comments made by peers I went back and did the assignments of making an outline, that outlined allowed me to ask and answer the questions in habits of … [Read more…]

Revision Plan Assignment – Chosen Discourse Project

When talking with my peers I discussed the ideas of my artifacts with them. My peer reviewers brought it to my attention that my quotes were strong, but the introduction of the quotes wasn’t the best they could be. I was given the advice to try and integrate my idea more before stating the quote. … [Read more…]

Note to Peers- Chosen Discourse Project

The main problem I am having is the ability to get my point across. I am unsure if I completely understand the prompt, so if you guys have any advice on whether I am going in the right direction or not that would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I made the point that the … [Read more…]