Problems Within Education Today
For my extra credit assignment I would like to research, and write about the problems in education today. According to chapter eight in the book, worldwide one in five adults can not read or write, two thirds of them being women. The problems we are facing in education can be linked to other social problems such as poverty or unemployment, seeing that those who graduate college make up twenty percent of the unemployment rate, compared to the forty percent of the unemployment rate in people with less than a high school degree. Another issue facing education is the inequality of schools and school districts. School districts with a lower socioeconomic status must spend more money on things like maintaining the school. Thus, leaving less money to spend on bettering the education of the children, which in turn leads to higher rates of drop outs, and lower rates of college attendance. Therefore, leaving them more likely to be unemployed or live in poverty. Finally, another major problem facing the American education system is the lack of financial support. One survey revealed that the most common thing to happen due to budget cuts is to increase the class size, which has been directly correlated with poorer academic achievement. The problems facing education are plentiful, most of which are grounded in financial woes. These effects can be devastating to the lives of the children it affects or society as a whole, due to the statistics correlating
More likely to serve low income students is urban public schools which who are reportedly failing to educate the students they serve. In urban public schools, Numerous understudies and their families are living with serious financial disservice. Students are not proven to be the problem. The education that urban students in government funded schools get is evidently insufficient. To be a school that promotes a good academic status of students, you can’t lack basic social utilities. Poverty in urban schools can be fixed. A feature that characterizes effective schools involves coordination instruction among teachers which contributed to the weak academic performance of low income students. You must ask yourself what would be the best solution to help these students succeed? Because urban school are being run badly, they are failing. Improvement within management lies a solution. According to Chicago Tribune in the news article” Economic Inequality: The real cause of the urban school problem” findings show that the root of the problems facing urban schools can be found in gradual but extremely powerful changes in the nation's economy It takes a comfortable environment, suitable effective committed teachers, more use of instructional practices consistently and available necessities and needs. The most important statistic provided is the Growing economic inequality contributes in a multitude of ways to a widening gulf between the educational outcomes of rich and poor
Here in America every single child is sent to school starting at the age of five years old for kindergarten, and sometimes as early as two years old for pre-school and continue on to get an education late into their twenties, some even going on to take classes the rest of their lives. Education in America is something that is readily available and even is required by law, but taken for granted by many children. On flip side third world countries often do not have schools or public education mandated by government, and most times it is not even available when most children yearn for it. Education is taken for granted in America, and in third world countries where education is almost completely absent something can be learned from their
The United States of America used to be known as one of the greatest countries to be apart of. From the jobs to the economy to education people loved to be apart of the American culture. The problem many Americans are facing today is poor education. Since America is viewed as a high profile country many people have prominent expectations on what they are receiving, specifically the education. The fact is that there are major problems with all levels of the education system today. Starting with early education, teachers are quick to say children needs to be medicated or put into special education. Proceeding to the general or high school education where kids are graduating but not prepared for what’s after. Lastly how higher education or college can hardly be afforded in today’s society. As a result of the failing education system, many parents blame the child or society when in actuality the failing system is corrupted by some teachers, lack of preparation, and lack of affordability in higher education.
Education entails individual human development in the cognitive, emotional, creative and social areas. All children are entitled to a free education regardless of race, cultural background or handicaps. For education to be an effective part of the students life, the student and teacher must be actively and enthusiastically involved in learning. A teacher needs to be well prepared and organized. They need to know the perspective goals for each student and ways to achieve these goals. Teachers need to work with students to help them grow and develop ways to use their knowledge.
Theories provide the foundation for educational practices, and many of them exist. While I consider my personal theory or philosophy of education to be one that is something of an ever-changing conglomerate of ideas, I realize that some of my guiding principals are directly attributed to well a well established theory.
There was once a time when white males were only allowed to attend colleges and universities. After the civil war, women and those of different ethnicities were thrown into the college scene. However, even today there continues to be the ongoing debate on how it is best to enroll, educate, and graduate these students that were once denied higher education. Because of this debate, American universities still need to provide accommodations to these groups of students. Those previously denied the right to attend universities now face issues because of the confidence gap, the economic gap, and the stress gap. These issues can be fixed if changes are made in the universities teaching system.
There are many problems and concerns within our public education system, usually surrounding money, public intervention, the latest reforms, as well as unequal gender bias. Gender bias in education is typically thought of the fact that girls are pushed toward classes that are humanities based, while the boys are pushed to take classes that are science and math driven. This then leads into the fact that women make less money than men, so something must be unequal, whether it is education or gender rights, or both. This paper will examine the gender gap in K-12 education, which includes stereotyping and the unequal representation of boys in math and science classes. Since the early 2000s there has been a push for girls to join the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, therefore, this paper assesses how that might affect their involvement in the STEM field in college and within the workforce. Lastly, what implications does women’s emergence into the STEM field have on breaking down barriers and stereotypes regarding education and equal pay.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” It is difficult to fully express why these words, attributed to Nobel Laureate W.B. Yeats, mean so much to me and my education. Since I was a little kid, I’ve always been passionate about learning. I distinctly remember sitting in my Kindergarten class in the corner reading the Magic Tree House books cover to cover. In first grade, I would keep my World Atlas with me at all times and read through it constantly throughout the day instead of doing whatever work I should have been doing. I was eager to learn more about the world around me and was incredibly blessed to attend a school that helped foster and encourage my desire for knowledge. Every young child has that insatiable
The school system provides many achievements throughout our life that benefit us, but everything had its consequences. As our system improves year to year there's many challenges that it has to go through issues regarding budget, technology, different aspects as the generation changes, and more. As years passes there have being many issues concerning how the education is affecting the younger generations and how even though many program are involved there isn't a satisfactory end result to provide a successful outcomes. One of the biggest issues concerning according to Grace Chen article is how poverty might affect the percentage of dropouts in an institution because of their financial struggle which might affect them with their lack of food
Education is inevitable. It is all around us because we can learn from virtually anything. When you are cooking, dancing, talking or any other activity you have actually had to learn several things to be able to do them. In the educational perspective, I am a pragmatist and I tend to follow after Dewey's footsteps. The concept of Pragmatism is one that developed in the 20th century. My philosophy is based on the idea that learning should involve real-life situations. Learning becomes more concrete to a student when they apply it to real-life situations, as where learning things that do not connect to them has more of an abstract sense. Personally, I would have to agree with Dewey when he said, "I
Education is a very important aspect of the lives of all people all over the world. What we learn, not just in the classroom, shapes who we are. We take our education everywhere we go. We use it when talking to our buddies about sports or music, we use it while solving a math problem, we use our education while debating with our family whether or not we should watch TV or go to the movies. Our education is the foundation of who we are, since every decision we make and every thought we think is dependent on what we know. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone craved learning to such a degree that at lunch tables all over the world the topic of conversation isn't who likes who, or how drunk
The few important aspect in these chapters is poverty, institution agents and school formal organization. Poverty is something that is always a big conflict throughout the years in Chapter 4 the topic that best explain poverty is conflict theory. What is Conflict Theory? According to abouteducation.com conflict theory is, “Conflict theory states that tensions and conflicts arise when resources, status, and power are unevenly distributed between groups in society, and that these conflicts become the engine for social change.” When talking about conflict theory on the issue of poverty is who a benefit getting a better educational system in American. People being upper or lower class can either benefit or struggle to receive a higher education. When thriving for a higher education it always ends
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
The debate over the future of education in the United States rages on. The subject of education in the United States is an incredibly divisive one, and for good reason, due to the large and overreaching impacts education has on our society as a whole. Historically, the issue of education has been controversial in nature, one that begets passion, and prevents objective thinking from taking root. Past decisions remain heavily contested for their efficacy, and new ideas suffer the same fate. Even just looking at events occuring during our most recent presidency, it is possible to see the necessity of changes being made, and yet the resistance or opposition to the changes implemented remains strong. With the new direction our country is taken, no doubt the issue of education will soon again be at the forefront of the minds of the American public. Currently in the United States, the argument over education is centered around three major topics, how schools should be structured, the merits of a standardized education, and what is it important for people to know in this day and age. In truth, however, all of these questions can be boiled down to a simpler, more fundamental question: Who has the power to control what the next generation learns?
“I just don't understand! Why you have to be so simple? Answer me Elizabeth. “Why would you sit there and pee on yourself?” and you think I am going to clean that mess up, well you thought wrong.”