Try to summarize the main focus of your RAB in a few sentences. Now take a quote from your library source and use the quote sandwich to enter the conversation on your topic.
A City Tech OpenLab Course Site
A City Tech OpenLab Course Site
Try to summarize the main focus of your RAB in a few sentences. Now take a quote from your library source and use the quote sandwich to enter the conversation on your topic.
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
the article explains that just recently policymakers noticed a major decline in students performance on standardize testing, which led to them improving how they run. The author adds, “Now, we are seeing the collapse of the two-decade-old bipartisan consensus among major policymakers that testing was the key lever for holding students, schools and teachers ‘accountable.’ And it is no coincidence that it is happening against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic that forced educational institutions to revamp how they operate.” This is important because, lawmakers have concluded that standardize testing was not benefiting the students and the schools. They have recently decided that it is best for schools to change their policies because of the decline and due to coronavirus in early 2020.
The article explains how student loans have been having a negative effect on most of those who decide to use them. It causes them to be in debt and this puts a burden on the persons financial life. Hess, who studies student debt and the labor force adds, ” Because young people are disproportionately burdened by student debt, they will be less able to participate in the economy in the long run” This is explaining how when a student is in debt, they have to pay it off for the rest of their lives until it is finished. This causes the money that they obtain to flow mostly in to this debt that they have to pay off. It stops them from getting a house or a car and much more. It seems like a help at first but later on you realize how much bad it does, not only to you but to the economy too.
The goal of my RAB is to dive into the idea that the neighborhood in which you live matters and affects your future. In my research, I found an article that not only proved that idea but took it a step further. In “How Place Matters” by Harriet Newburger and a panel of editors they strove to dive into the statement, place matters. They acknowledged the biases that one may have over that seemingly simple statement and wrote in the pursuit of truth. They used statistical analysis along with real-world analysis in order to create their work. They state, “…with city unemployment rates double those of the suburbs in 2000 in the Northeast and Midwest and elevated in the South and West. This concentration of poverty and unemployment in cities substantially constrains city fiscal standing and the ability of cities to undertake remedial policies” (Newburger). The cited information details a study done on two separate regions with two separate monetary values and how it created a downward spiral for both employment and the resulting poverty. They also take my approach and further it by using a bigger study area. It would’ve been much easier to use a small area to get some concrete evidence but they chose to use a bigger space. I believed that to truly see the effect of one’s environment you’d have to pinpoint a specific small area due to the volume of people in one given neighborhood. But for them to be able to get a substantial amount of data in order to produce an answer from such a widespread area, although there is so much diversity, really opens my eyes to how much deeper location matters rather than just the neighborhood you live in.