High City Schools Adequate And Equal Expectations

The American Education System is not meeting the needs of current students. If anything, the system is not building a sturdy foundation for the future working class. Schools have existed for many years and every period they have worked differently. However, every school’s main purpose was to educate students to be efficacious later in life. Modern day schools are corrupting students with added pressure, standardized tests, making less accommodations for special education students, not following laws, and take away individualism from the students’. The students of modern times are the people of our future and the future does not look too bright with the current American Education System.

The two district I chose to compare to the Youngstown City School District are Canton School and Mansfield School Districts. As I was going through the report cards I was not surprised at the similarities between Canton Schools and Youngstown, due to the fact that they are both city school districts. However, I was surprised with the scores from the Mansfield’s report card, and I am not sure why?

Education has been the subject of some of the most heated discussions in American history. It is a key point in political platforms. It has been subject to countless attempts at reform, most recently No Child Left Behind and Common Core. Ardent supporters of institutional schools say that schools provide access to quality education that will allow the youth of our country to gain necessary skills to succeed in life. Critics take a far more cynical view. The book Rereading America poses the question, “Does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth by squeezing us into prefabricated cultural molds?” The authors of this question miss a key distinction between education and schooling that leaves the answer far from clear-cut. While education empowers, the one-size-fits-all compulsory delivery system is stifling personal growth by squeezing us into prefabricated cultural molds.

Growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles taught me many things; make sure you’re inside before the street lights come on, never wear all red or blue, and make sure you get a good education so that one day you can leave the inner city behind. I was fortunate enough to have both a mother and a father who stressed the importance of excelling academically because attending an inner city, LA county, public school did not instill a love of academics in myself or my peers. Our teachers had checked out, the curriculum was not inspiring or relatable, and everyday there was yet another fight happening during recess. As time went on I witnessed my classmates and I take completely different paths. The strong support system I had at home proved effective. As I went on to go to college, many of my peers dropped out, the dismal state of our public school system had clearly failed them. During my undergraduate studies, the stories of my old classmates did not leave my mind.

Children who live in poor urban neighborhoods are disproportionately likely to be members of racial and ethnic minority groups and are at greater risk for school failure

Rather than creating a world filled with the most creative and independent thinkers, the crippling educational system that has been implemented by society over the years focuses on producing ‘mindless consumers and employees’. According to an article written by John Taylor Gatto, Against School, the flaws in a modern ‘compulsory’ school system that have dramatic effects on the student body and faculty. The passing blame between teacher and student are said to be results of the decreased salaries and mindless lesson plans leading to busywork for hours. The author states that as a society “ We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women.” (Gatto,5) The devastating decline in the quality of our educational system has encouraged this upcoming generation to not think at all for themselves or the effects their actions may have on others.

schools may be better than we think but are they good enough to prepare our

During my interview with my brother, Kenny Tran, he quoted Albert Einstein who said, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its climbing ability to climb a tree, it will live his whole life

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein saw it. Everyone else should too. There’s something wrong with schools today. Students are taught to listen, not to learn. They’re given assignments that they don’t find interesting, they’re told to write papers on topics they have no interest in, and they’re asked to take tests on material they couldn’t care less about. Students are failing classes, and dropping out of school. Instead of the schools being built to accommodate new students and new methods of teaching, students are “built” to accommodate the school’s old ways of teaching. In order to properly educate and inspire creativity in students, there must education that is tailored to meet the needs of every student individually.

Health care is a huge issue in America. A lot of people do not realize that one of the reasons most students do not attend school in urban areas is because they have no health care. Their parents more than likely don’t work a job where there is no health care provided and they make to much money to qualify for medicaid. Its a never ending cycle. You also mentioned standardized testing. Standardized testing also plays a factor in funding for the school. If the school does a great job on the testing they get more government money. The schools that do poorly on the test are usually in the urban and rural areas and they get as much funding as the other schools. The schools in the urban and rural areas need the most funding and help to help better

Education has been reformed in many substantial ways since the early 1900’s; although, it isn’t perfect. In the early 1900s, there was a very low attendance rate and a high dropout rate. Towards the end of the industrial revolution high school graduation rate was 6.4 percent . Today, the graduation rate is 81 percent (Turner, "The High School Graduation Rate Reaches A Record High - Again"). With such an increase in the graduation rate, the education system has obviously improved dramatically. As technology improves and grows, the education system grows with it. According to the U.S Department Of Education, students learn material 30-80 percent faster with technology. Even with all of the new technologies, standardized testing could be the reason

Public urban schools that serve as the epicenter of large thriving communities tend to have a considerable number of students who come from homes of poverty. Providing assistance to students who have challenges due to poverty becomes another factor when ensuring high achievement for all students. For this reason, additional programs and monies have been utilized to meet this goal. The idea of creating education legislation to assist disadvantaged citizens is not a new idea. As a matter of fact, the federal government set aside land for schools to build in the late 18th century (Borman, Stringfield, Slavin, 2001, p. 1). Other such assistance was created including the GI Bill of Rights after World War II; the National Defense Education

One of the main concerns of this paper is how harmful this mindset can be to students. The modern idea of school curriculum is that every student should be tested for the same set of skills and in the same way, measuring every student up to the same standard. The problem with this is that the people who came up with

Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Education across the world has experienced significant changes. Students are now required to learn and behave by standard guidelines. Teachers are now held accountable for teaching certain lessons to the students. There are people, laws, and organized groups that have done extensive research and studies to decide who should learn what and in which manner. The following articles will explain a few of those changes and the impact each has