The American Dream Slipping Away By Susan B. Neare

In Sara E. Keene’s essay she says that the American Dream is being pushed higher for low income groups to achieve because of community colleges having remedial courses in the curriculum. Keene says that the main solution will be to redefine the education system by adding â€Å"critical reading, writing and reasoning skills† back into the system. By the same token Susan B. Neuman in â€Å"The American Dream: Slipping Away?† observes that making the American Dream attainable to the low income groups will be by, more reading materials, higher parental support, and more funding to low income groups. While Neuman’s proposal is for those of early childhood education, Keene focuses on college level education. As Neuman’s article is based on the studies she†¦show more content†¦At the end of the article Keene also points out that the way teachers handle and teach during class is what’s forcing theses harder to reach claims. The teaching ways show that not giving a challenge to the students makes it harder for them to achieve their goal and try to succeed in college. Neuman and Keene both shared the topic on how the American Dream is being harder to reach because of the education system failing those of low-income families. In both articles they discussed that the system treating low income families is not doing justice by in the way they either set up the curriculum or funding. Moreover they tie in with similarities such as they both want to change the system that’s opposing on income families to achieve the American Dream. However they differ in the sense that in Neuman’s article she based it all on the observation on early childhood education with all proved data based off of two neighborhoods, one high and one low income, meanwhile Keene’s article is based on her own personal opinion on her experience on â€Å"both sides of the desk†(1) and is mostly on college level students. Compared to Neuman, whose article is based on â€Å"how do we fix the knowledge gap between the two social classes, Keene’s is focused on the how the teachers should give a challenge to the students to make them want to try harder than just lower their expectations in what they should and should