Education and Inner City

                Education in American inner cities has been shown to be inferior to the schools in white middle class suburbia. The schools which are located in the inner city are given less attention by political educators due to the fact that the children of these educators do not for the most part attend these inner city schools.

     Many of these officials view these schools as dangerous places for non-minority students. Statistics show that economic funds are not allocated to these schools as they are to other non-inner city schools.

     In the opinion of many current educators both white and minority, this is a major reason for inner city test scores being below average in these schools. Also many times the teachers may be sub-standard or may just be burned out after years of teaching. Money is not necessarily the answer, though it would certainly help. A different attitude must also prevail in order to instigate sufficient change for the betterment of these inner city schools. 

Week 2

If I were a childless couple I would want to move to a place such as downtown Tempe.  The reason for that is the fact that downtown Tempe is a very lively place where there a lot of young college kids and couples who want to party and have fun.  The gentrification theory suggests that as neighborhood which is moved into by wealthier people will turn into a better place.  I see that in downtown Tempe, there are a lot of bars and upscale restaurants that are opening up to cater to the wealthy residents.  There is also the Tempe Marketplace which was opened up and there a lot of people who shop there regularly. 

            I think a childless couple would also want the luxury of attending events such as art displays, exhibits and shows.  Downtown Tempe has easy access to downtown Phoenix via the light rail and is therefore a good place to live.  A childless couple would want people to be able to visit them and they would want to do cookouts and other activities. For this they would want a place which could accommodate theses activities.  Downtown Phoenix is too expensive and therefore there wouldn’t be much room to do all these activities.  However, Tempe is still very much affordable and would be a great place to buy a house. 

I would want to be living in a place with easy access to the outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain climbing and biking.  Downtown Tempe is close to all these things and has a lot to offer.

Introduction

Hello! My name is Tarish Alqubaisi and I am a senior here at ASU.  I enjoy a wide variety of things including running, basketball and camping.  I am looking forward to this class since it looks like a lot of interesting concepts are going to be discussed in it.  I hope to provide my input in the discussions as well.  I thought public policy was something that was implemented without any rhyme or reason.  I was shocked to know the various protocols that need to be followed before something is implemented.  I am also very interested in the elite theory because it seems that our input doesn't matter a whole.  Also the process of policy making and how there are different policies didn't really cross my mind. I did not know that there was regulatory, distributive, self-regulatory and redistributive policies. However, with everything else in life it makes sense that there are many different policies.