The Current Education System Has Long Been Up For Debate?

The current American education system has its flaws. Public schools struggle, private schools charge exorbitant prices, and the status quo dictates that a college degree acts a golden ticket to success in today’s workplace. This ideal contrasts from history’s viewpoint. During previous centuries, only upper-class men received education, as classrooms barred their doors to women and the poor. Renaissance men, who dabbled in numerous arts and sciences, gained their fame and glory more from the monetary power backing them than their intellectual prowess and knowledge. Straying from the past, elementary education is now a fundamental right, available to those with and without money, and a large— but not complete— population continues their

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.

Currently, education has been a system of miss-education. I believe that children are pushed out of high

The United States spends more money on education each year than any other country in the world, yet the education system is not thriving. Three decades ago, America was the leader in the quality of high school diplomas, yet, students in the U.S. rate 31st in math literacy and 23rd in science in comparison to the rest of the world. (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) The country that is famous for being the most advanced and innovative country in the world is yielding a generation that is falling behind in the global education race. Public K-12 education is worsening simultaneously with the growing competitiveness of universities. Part of the problem is that teachers are not being paid sufficiently, and many find themselves being laid off. College is getting exponentially more expensive each year. These are only a couple of the issues that the american education system faces today, but the list carries on.

Education has had three phases of development according, to Van Krieken, 2013. Each phase being associated with a set of beliefs about the nature and purpose of education. Firstly, the advent of the modern system from the mid-19th century to World War II, influenced chiefly by liberal humanist ideas. Secondly, post World War II expansion into the late 1970’s was influenced by social democratic beliefs. Finally, the increased marketisation of education which has been influenced by neoliberalism since the 1980’s (Krieken, 2013, p. 149).

Our basic problem in our educational system is that the credit that is earned is not properly given to the precipitants that deserve it. The immediate needs for our educational system is not about more money or better teachers but simply a widespread of F’s given. The title of the article, “What our Education System is more F’s.” by Carol Singleton, a professor at Fort Hayes State University. Sparking an interesting topic that has effectively betrayed the readers attrition. He argues that Americans do not actually care about their education as long as there is not disturbance, and everything seems to be working fine. Students, parents, teachers and school administrators do not care if the material is being mastered when the student is “passing”

What is it that’s making our country suffer from excelling in education? Very few would argue about the importance of our education system today. Issues such as lazy teachers, lack of parent involvement, and teaching useless information in class may hinder progress in today’s education system. An education plays a crucial role and is an essential tool, unfortunately, with all the jaded judgments; our students are not able to value their education. A proper education can open the doors to many opportunities that would have never been possible if it had not been for the knowledge and preparation that one received while in school. With the growing economy and desperate times, it is more important than ever for our country’s children to receive the proper education and training that is needed to allow them to acquire a good job and produce the revenue needed to live. Today's education system is flawed in many ways, and these flaws should be eliminated to ensure a good education for our future generation.

London carved out in stone the hard cold truth on how the school system works. The educational system has created an illusion of this perfect place for kids to learn, make life-long friends, and be prepared to enter the world as individuals. London, however, proves that this perfect system is actually flawed and unjust. Students walk into school afraid because "social lines are barbed wire," and where they stand in the social hierarchy. They also learn lessons that will not help them when they "swim" in the big world as an adult. Girls are afraid of their own looks, care only about their status, and who is dating whom. While the guys, hide their insecurities through the sports the play, or trying to be the class clown. Nobody wants to be called

There is a plethora of issues surrounding our current education system, the most important issue is that education is centered on the idea that only one person should do the thinking on any given topic. As a student, you are expected to learn the material by being lectured and learning the concrete facts that go into any given topic. There is no stress on looking at things from different perspectives. The education system would be a different place if students were not only being tested about the world, but how to make our world better for ourselves. James Hikins and Richard Cherwitz wrote an essential work that highlighted an idea commonly known as, rhetorical perspectivism. Rhetorical Perspectivism creates a foundation for how students and the world could

We have bad institutional habits and the educational system will continue to be the way it is because our system is outdated and that’s how it’s always been. The U.S. education system does what it was designed to do. The problem that were facing is that it was formed over 100 years ago in a different time period, for a

about because of how much it has changed from the past to the present. Education first was

Today’s education system has become focused on standardized intelligence testing and what works best for the majority. This system, although created to help the masses, is impersonal and only benefits a specific group of students who learn the best through testing. Those students who think creatively and use imagination are left behind. This is why intelligence tests are not accurate measurement of a child’s knowledge as it does not account for creativity and the child’s individual strengths. Changes need to be made within the school system. Instead of focusing on what is “correct” schools should be encouraging problem-solving through the process of making mistakes and failing. This challenges a student to learn about themselves and the world around them. When everything is already laid out for them it is easy to follow. There is no single way of thinking. By making a student have to think on their own it stimulates creativity and allows them to better connect concepts to real world situations.

Before there can be a true and defined discussion about the education history and processes of this nation, there has to be an understanding about education itself. Education is not solely about educating people on how to read or write. Nor is it about creating a future worker to add to the general society. All of these are positive and lavish ideas that play into the overall benefit to society. However, the main benefit and promotion of education is the integration of different types of people to create a balanced society. A Society can’t be created if people are separated by religion, race or even income levels. This type of ideas and practice will result in inner class hate, and will split a society into multiple parts. This can be seen

This then is our catch-22: We cannot have a democratic, critical and multicultural education in such an inequitable society and we need a democratic education, a free and truly educated citizenry, in order to have a working democracy. The economy is a filter of perception that shapes our thoughts, beliefs and goals and is responsible for having created a “factory education,” converting children into a compliant, malleable workforce. In the words of Harvard professor Larry Lessig

Graff says that putting students in classes in the contemporary system is wasting and limiting students’ potential and creativity (198). Complaining that intellects do not meet the success standard set by schools, Graff proves that schools limit the intellect students can achieve in their academic career (198-199).