Education Tracking

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This paper explains that both Maya Angelou's "Graduation" and Mike Rose's "I Just Wanna Be Average" describe ethnic and class barriers in education and suggest how to overcome the odds stacked against them. The author points out that, in a society that proclaims the rights to liberty and justice for all, these two writers illustrate the perpetual problem of educational tracking and the effects of tracking on young students.The paper stresses that, unlike Angelou and Rose, the author does not understand the reality of tracking in the American educational system because she assumed that she was no different from anyone else.

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"Gender posed an additional barrier for Angelou, who writes about her experiences with the segregated public school system in "Graduation". At the titular ceremony at her black public school in Stamps, Arkansas, Angelou recalls the deep humiliation she and her classmates suffered when two white men usurped the ceremony to declare that while the white school received upgrades to its science and arts classrooms, their Lafayette County Training School would be privileged to receive an asphalt upgrade. In "I Just Wanna Be Average", Rose recalls his friend's words ...".

Sample of Sources Used:

• Angelou, Maya. "Graduation."
• Rose, Mike. "I Just Wanna Be Average."

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