Cultural Meme of Educational Funding

Paper Summary:

There is a meme existing in today's society regarding education that is deeply entrenched in American thought concerning the quality of educational provision in the United States. This meme is simply the belief that educational provision is equal to all children, in all schools, and that all children have the same potential successful educational outcomes because that is how it is done in the United States. This paper examines this meme and contends that nothing could be further from the truth.

Outline:
Objective
Statement of Thesis
Introduction
Cultural Meme Defined
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Jonathan Kozol - Solutions
The Requirement of Changing the Meme in Educational Funding
Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography

From the Paper:

"This cultural meme has been programmed into American society very deeply and has entrenched deeply within the mind of individuals, groups, churches, businesses and other structure in today's society in the United States. Media furthers this illusion and does not report the tragic facts in today's educational system. Politicians certainly fail to acknowledge the problem and even civil rights activists fail today to speak loudly enough to garner the attention of the American society. Businesses and corporations further the widening divide as well as does the more affluent society-at-large. There is only one possible method that might assist today's society in breaking the barrier to equal provision of quality education to all students in the United States and that is a reprogramming of the 'selfish' gene and just as has this selfish genetic codex been established in the human being's genetics, a cognitive focused intentional reprogramming of this gene is the only way of ensuring that the future generations will be based on equal provisions of education for all students to provide each and every student with the best possible outcome."

Sample of Sources Used:

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