RESEARCH PAPER The research essay for this course is worth 30% of your final grade. With this in...

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RESEARCH PAPER
The research essay for this course is worth 30% of your final grade. With this in mind, it is important that you read this document carefully, and think about what the assignment is inviting you to do.
The mechanics of the paper are as follows:
XXXXXXXXXXpages – including a citation page: so, we are talking about 5-6 pages of essay.
2. Font 12, Times New Roman & double spaced
3. Co
ect use of a citation style- APA. Chicago, MLA etc.
a.There is no need for an abstract, methods section or formal discussion – citation style guides will tell you that these are part of using APA etc. For this assignment, all I am concerned with is referencing.
To begin: this is a history paper; it is not about the cu
ent state of whatever you decide to write on. For example, If you decided to write about Universal Pre-K, that would be an excellent topic; however, I would expect that you would explore the historical origins of Universal Pre-K, beginning, perhaps, with the Headstart Program as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, How the Civil Rights Movement highlighted inequities in early school readiness for marginalized communities, and working through the Congressional reauthorization process while spending time talking about how theories of ‘fadeout’ impacted reauthorization. If you read this and have no idea what most of it is refe
ing to, you would once you completed your historical research! Does that make sense!?
Here is an example of what that an introduction and thesis might look like for an essay on UniversalPre-K:
“The idea that all children would benefit from a school readiness program has gained momentum over the last decade. Universal Pre-K would allow all preschool age children to take advantage of a high quality, Pre-Kindergarten program designed to help facilitate school readiness. While universal Pre-K has quite recently attracted significant attention, the importance of early school readiness has deep roots in the history of American education policy. This paper will explore the history of the movement to make pre-K education part of the educational experience for all American children. This paper will begin by exploring the role that President Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ program played in
inging Head Start into American Education Policy; next, I will examine the connection between the Civil Rights movement and the importance of
inging Pre-K into historically marginalized communities; f inally, this paper will locate the problems Headstart encountered with Congressional reauthorization and what the science told us about challenges such as Fadeout.”
1.The first 3 sentences form the introduction (think of it as, what is the topic & why should the reader care)?
2.Beginning with “This paper will explore...” is called the Road Map. It tells the reader where the paper will be taking her – from the next few sentences the reader is made aware of what each section of the paper will be dedicated to – it is up to writer to follow the road map.
3.The paper will finish with a concise conclusion that will sum up the findings of the paper while avoiding introducing anything new.
Tips:
1.Avoid rhetorical questions.
2.Avoid tired metaphors like the plague! See what I did there?!
3.Stay on topic – do not wander off the map.
4.Make sure the paper is historical in nature.
5.Get started early!

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Running Head: HISTORY ASSIGNMENT 		1
HISTORY ASSIGNMENT		3
HISTORY OF UNIVERSAL PRE-K POLICY 
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
The Historic Overview	3
The Rationale of Universal Pre-K	4
Conclusion	7
References	7
Introduction
	Equality of education is reckoned as one of the fundamental human rights given to children. In fact, at global level, the social communities and the national governments thrive to produce a quality educational framework with a view to make their children highly qualified and competent (Cohen et al, 2020). In the context of United States, the condition was not like the one people view these days in educational sector; the nation has gone through severe phases and revolutionary changes in terms of ensuring equality in education and how it should be imparted with the young ones (Pac, 2021). The following paper examines the historical context of the Universal Pre-K program in United States. The analysis tends to recognize the potential barriers that could affect the course of implying universal laws in elementary education and how they are addressed in the modern context as well. 
The Historic Overview 
	In the context of the regulations that may lead to universal framework of elementary education, it is important to view the condition of education in United States before 1965 when the Pre-K policy was implemented by President Johnson. Before that, the nation was going through the Civil Rights Movement and education for all was one of the motives behind the revolution. The main conflict was to bring in racial equality by avoiding slavery and racial segregation from society. Education was seen as the major weapon to deal with these social issues; if there were educational opportunities existing at elementary level, the society would think of equality of communities in a better way.  This was possible only by revisiting the existing educational norms in nation as well; since elementary education seemed to be the founding stone for the successful build up of the social order, the focus of the leaders of the revolution like MLK Jr. And Rosa Parks had their strong perceptions about the concept of educational equality. 
	For example, in some of the open letters written by MLK Jr., he mentioned that how the key features of successful achievement of the equality remained intact with the concept of education to all. He believed in the principle of passing the educational norms form one generation to the other so that the change that they were fighting for would not get weakened over the course of time. He even mentioned the contexts of a few policies like providing equality to education through legislation and alleviation of poverty so that people can have better access to education as well. Seeing the response of the common public towards this concept of educational equality, President Johnson launched the “war on poverty” in 1964 which had the extended meaning of the war against the biases existing in the educational system of the nation. This was possibly the impact of the thinking of MLK Jr. That brought forward the Pre-K in its primary form. The agenda was clear; it was to give equal space in education to the marginalized communities of America 
	Additionally in the context of the rough draft of something that was later known as the Universal Pre-K, President Johnson made committee headed by Sergeant Shriver who began analyzing how the elementary education can have reformative steps through the alleviation of the primary school based education.

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