A controversial topic we have in society today is our education system. Our education is very important, it’s a crucial part of our life and one should always have the need to better it. People always want to find ways to improve it, and some people don’t believe that there is anything wrong with the way the education system is, they think that it is perfectly fine. The truth is, today’s education system has a lot of improvements that can be made, but it will take years upon years to fix. Some people want to make the most drastic changes yet they know they won’t be able to change them, not in the period of time that they would like. They would like to reduce class sizes, so teachers can have more one on one experience with the children; they would also like to change the age that the children start school at, that is one thing that I believe will change, and soon, because it’s happening now, some children are starting pre-school at the age of three. I would like to fix several issues the education system has, but I can’t. Some of the major issues that I would like to be fixed are the school starting times, more elective classes, and the high schools being more liberal or how high schools should have more freedom, like college students. I want to see our educational system change for the better, and I know that we will have to start with minor steps in order to get to where we need to be. Starting with smaller improvements that will help set the way for us to make the big
It is a very important issue that none can just put away. It has been far too long that we’ve experienced social problems come to our faces and just accept it; not stopping it. I proposed that we should use less money on other institutions and use it towards the schools that don’t receive the funding they deserve. I highlighted specific statistics that have shown the imbalance in funding for schools and prisons. Prisons get nearly double and sometimes triple the more funding than K-12 schools get. This has to go. My second proposition is that we need to make college free. Free college would enable more people to get off the streets and start learning. They’d contribute to the society in which ever way they can. There’d be less homeless people, less people in jail, and create more politicians and scientists and inventors that would come into the society and help innovate the world. My third and final proposition would be to simply improve what these children are learning. We need to add additional curriculums that serve the purpose of teaching children how to perform everyday life skills and how to be great human
Now a lot of people may ask, how can we fix our very broken education system? First of all, we need to upgrade the Standard Common Core. What i mean by upgrading is that we need to change it to make it better and more advanced. We should also try to fix how we teach literacy, math and other subjects. And last of all, focus more on education than almost anything else because if we don’t, we’ll be left behind in the
In “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson, has many great ideas and facts about why should the school system should change. Although i may agree in some points as like the school system is working as a factory. I believe that changing some aspects like the way we learn things can and may keep the kids coming to school. For example, in my classes some of my classmates struggle the way the teacher teaches us so when they ask for my help i have tried different methods and it works. They start to understand instead of struggling but that’s because i didn’t choose to teach it the same way as the teacher. And with this experience i noticed that teaching the same way all the time won’t work students will be struggling because they learn in
Thus far the discussions of how race, culture, and socioeconomic status plays a role in education has been a very enlightened one. Up until now I really have never thought about how many things play a part in the education a child receives and how a teacher’s career is also impacted. Like many others I assume, education is something that we all receive and never think about it in great detail. For me going to school each day was just a routine and the end goal was to graduate high school and go onto college, always thinking that it was that easy for all others. Not until now have I discovered that it is not that easy and that there are many obstacles in the way of a good education.
Many may believe that the United States school system is flawless; that no other countries school system or organization is as advanced as ours, “just like our government.” Those people need to come into the realization that our school system is broken, we need to be realists and not dreamers when it comes to something as serious as our education. Our school system has not been putting in the needed or required effort to reach the goals of true education or a good education that we, as students, deserve. Schools have been cheating us of what we deserve. Although some may believe our school system is perfect, it is not; our school system is broken and it needs to be fixed.
The education system in the United States could definitely use some serious changes. As of now, what we are doing is not producing the results it should and it would seem that it is time for a change. But the last thing this change should be is a federal regulation over national curriculum and testing, if anything, that would increase the current problem. There are numerous issues with the current education system to be addressed. One of the main focuses will be on its lack of concerns for students’ lives and how much they are truly affected by the education they receive. As well, some possible solutions to be considered for the future of this country’s education because staying on this path won’t lead to any improvements.
This paper is designed to address four major controversies concerning the practice and effectiveness of the current United States education system and discuss potential solutions to these issues. The four controversies we will be addressing are;
Greetings! As a rising 8th grade student at Sun Valley Middle School in Indian Trail, I would like to describe the problems I have continued to view within the school system and provide ideas on how to fix them. First, I feel the curriculum should be altered.One could observe that a rife of the knowledge we learn in school will either be forgotten entirely later in our lives, must be relearned as a result of how long ago it was taught, or most commonly, the knowledge rattles around in our heads and lacks use.Take for example, the formula for calculating electric current. The vast majority people will not find themselves needing to calculate the wattage of an electrical appliance unless they are an engineer or electrician. Even if you were to have a job in either of those positions, you certainly would not be
My own view is that we need to change the system of education. Though I concede that sometimes it makes sense to keep what is not broken, I still maintain that for a better learning experience, we must change. Although some argue that what is already in place is enough for our education, I claim that stepping outside of our comfort zone
I hope to resolve the issue of making the grading scale more consistent and easily understood by everyone. The current grading system consists of letter grades, percentages, and symbols that have no corresponding numerical value.Some argue that the grading system is easily understood and helps improve student performance. Others will argue that it has its limits and hard to comprehend. A positive change that I would like to see is improvement in the grading system criteria and making it easier to understand, so that it helps the performance of all students. My opponents argue that the grading scale is difficult to comprehend and has its limits. The opposition would want to resolve this issue because of the criteria and limits they disagree with. Both sides make valid points but, each side can reach a solution that both parties agree to.
The education system has been a controversial issue among educators. Requirements of school do not let student choose what they want to study for their future. It’s a big issue to force student study specific curriculums, which don’t help them improve, and what they like to create something. Educators choose a general system for education to all students which based on general knowledge. Intelligent or genius students have to be in that system of education, which doesn’t let them improve their creativity. Educators attempt to change that system to make it better, but their changing was not that great to be an example for the world. Also, did that change qualify education system to compete other systems or not? In some examples and
“Schooling the world” was a film based on schools around the world. The Director Carol Black focuses on India schooling and American schooling. The purpose of this film is to show that Americans think education should be one way and not different ways. The schooling in India has changed over time and locals are struggling with the changes. In the older schooling in India is was based on crops and the community. Very few people went to school, but many worked in the fields and in homes. Children are now being sent to boarding school in other towns and leaving their homes to get a better education. Many small towns in India are struggling with the new concept of learning and young people's views on money and communities. Throughout the film I agreed with most of the points in the film, I do disagree with some of the views the older Indian generation has.
Throughout the history of civilization, education has been an important tool in shaping an individual as well as the society that the individual is a part of. In the older civilizations, only the elite upper class had access to education. This kept these people at the top of the social ladder, and suppressed the common people who did not have access to the same education as the nobles. We have come a long way since then, with every child having access to a free high school degree. However, there is still some inequality in this modern education system that has similarities to the old injustices. In this day and age, a college degree is a great start for a young adult starting to enter the work force. According to a study conducted by Pew
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Education reform is a topic that every student, parent and teacher should be interested in because it effects everyone in the community. Many different approaches to education reform have been tried, and even though they seem to work for the time being, there are always more improvements that need to be made. One of the best ideas that has been discussed in the most recent years is getting the parents and students more involved in the actual reform process. Many school administrators see a problem with involving students, even though they are the ones most affected by the changes within schools. Student’s opinions should be taken into consideration because they are the ones who see what happens inside the school and within the classroom, and are the most affected by it. Involving parents and students in the reform of their schools will improve the quality of education, improve parent and teacher relationships and reduce parent and student complaints.