The Importance Of Education In America

Education in America is one of the most important issues that face our nation. If the education in America is not thought of one of most serious issues we face, our nation as a whole will fall. There are many debates and they seemly extend to all walks of life. The debates range from the decline in education, school vouchers, and the no child left behind law. As a nation, the United States is ranked above others. We must search for that solution to all of the pro’s and con’s in education. The solution should allow all walks of life to excel in the education realm. After all, the children of today will be the leaders of tomorrow.

Education in America is highly valued, but are kids being educated in today’s age in the right way? There are arguments about how different schools have certain methods of teaching that no school is the same. Kids that go from K-12 are always drilled into believing that they have two options to either work hard and go to college for a degree, or to fail and not get anywhere and end up working low paying jobs. Traditional views of schooling are affecting kids and there must be a more positive solution to fix that. The educational system must address the issues on how kids that go from k-12 are being graded, and how schools are teaching students to conform to a certain norm and not to let their creativity bloom.

Advanced technology and forms of communication have changed the way we look at our nation. The current political climate and the cultural movement that is happening in our nation is going to go down in history as a revolution. A revolution where news headlines are instantaneously on our phone screens, and thanks to our advanced technology, a whole world of information is a few clicks away. However, despite these advancements in technology, the cultural change in America is often slowed down because there is a general lack of education. In America, education is the one, if not the biggest barriers that economically and institutionally suppress an overwhelming amount of the nation’s adults. Majority of adults in America do not have basic reading and writing skills yet education is still not a priority in America. There is a crucial need for education in America, now more than ever. In my opinion, the only reason for the current political climate in America is the lack of education that brings basic awareness. The solution to what we are witnessing as a nation is an education that makes individuals aware of the reality of our circumstances and allows them to see a perspective from multiple points of views. In this paper, I will present my argument on why education should be made a priority in America.

The author proves how our present school system is based on an old-fashioned model designed for students who would finally work in factories. Provided that simple abilities to young pupils might have been enough by the turn of the 21st century, but it is absolutely not satisfactory in the 21st. The several and cumulative things of a broader base of knowledge and rapidly proceeding technologies need extension of access to education and overhaul of curricula, teaching styles, and learning assessments. Darling-Hammond discovers imaginative changes in Finland, South Korea, Singapore, and other places that have kept up with the rising needs for educating school children. She poignantly shows how California pales in comparison to these places.

The public school system of America is the driving force of the nation’s job market. There is a direct correlation between the nation’s job market and the nation’s economic opulence. Despite education being at an all-time high for tax dollars spent, the heightened accessibility of schools across the country, and continuation of schooling after high school more than ever, the public school system of the United States continues to pump out insufficient workers to the work force. For almost two hundred years, the citizens of America have held a belief that going through the school system will be the necessary element to the life one wants to live in America. Over the years, schooling emitted a false hope that made job assurance possible. Fifty

In an intelligence-based economy, education is important to national prosperity and individual success. Huge achievement gaps and opportunities must shrink to non-existence, and every student must receive a well education that prepares them for college and careers in the world as it is today. Comparing the United States education system to other countries shows that the United States scored lower than nineteen other counties and education systems in reading in the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment. Germany and Poland in particular are two countries that have now surpassed the United States. During the same study, scores showed that twenty-nine nations outperformed the United States by a large amount in mathematics, and in science, there have been twenty-two education systems that scored higher than the United States (Heitin).

In America, the system of education has one of the greatest influences on the people of the country. From the common workers of the U.S.A, to the teachers, the entrepreneurs, and even to the parents of the students, everybody is impacted by our current education system. Most importantly, the children playing the role of the students are impacted the most from this. At the end of the day, these children are the ones receiving this experience. After all, it is the education that a person receives that shapes their future. It is the morals they grow up with, and most importantly, their educational experience at school. Sadly, this “educational experience” does not affect the students of the generation in a positive way. There are many flaws with

Imagine not being able to go to school and learn how to read and write. America's gift to my generation is the educational opportunities we have. We are lucky to have schools and colleges where we can get an education. Educations are important for life. Without education , we couldn't get jobs and make it in the world.

Education is a very powerful tool in the twenty-first century; the power of knowledge allows an individual to advance his social and economic status. “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson demonstrates the necessity of a customized education system in modern America while explaining why traditional learning is slowly reversing true American values. Since the late 1800s, the United States of America has developed a reputation of “rags to riches” because of the success stories of John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie. The belief that anyone can achieve the American Dream turned the United States into one of the most omnipotent countries in the world. However, recently, the federal government has treated education secondary to homeland security, welfare, and health care. Other countries such as Korea, Finland, India, China, and Switzerland have surpassed America in education, technology, and math and science rankings. Cathy Davidson’s, “Project Classroom Makeover”, exhibits that the United States has reached its pinnacle and the education system is slowly failing millennials due to its inability to adjust its curriculum to accommodate the ever-changing technological age.

Education is a democratizing power that helps to prepare students to participate actively in all aspects of their life. According to Dewey “the aims of education should be oriented towards preparing people” to be full and active participants in all aspects of democratic life (Hansen & James, 2016, p. 5). Public education has experienced numerous amounts of changes. As the public education system experiences these changes there is a need to acclimate to these changes. Since “schools are essential to laying the foundation for the transformation” of society (Eisen, 1996, p. 306). Providing students a democratic education will prepare citizen for their role in society, by providing them the skills and knowledge they need. Specific reasons why the role of public education in American society has changed is due to the wave of immigrants and cultural differences.

Although many Americans attest to the validity of a sound American education, the darkest secrets of this glorified giant have yet to be revealed to the public to expose it as the greatest enemy of the rising youth in contemporary culture. Beginning with the rise of the Common Core Initiative as well as the No Child Left Behind Act; youth has been tossed into an industrialized education where the government has top priority in reformation of learning techniques while schools, who shape the students themselves, have the lowest priority. This is all possible due to the rising number of teachers heeding the “Initiative,” using invalid strategies for instruction—homework becoming the dominant source for reinforcement of fundamental concepts. The habits formed by students in high school indubitably carry over to post-secondary education; as a result, the recent graduates are unprepared for what awaits them in the next steps of rigorous education. Public American Education was founded upon fine values; however, the end results don’t justify the means of education as more and more youth are thrusted from the “Race to the Top” into a competitive “Race to Nowhere,” ill-equipped to face the real problems of the world; thus, the public education system is inadequate to bring up the future leaders of this nation.

The United States holds its education system to a high standard and it attracts immigrants from all over the world. Going to school in the United States is said to open opportunities that would not have otherwise been presented. Unfortunately, education is not as student-tailored as it should be. Over time, education has been made a part of the “system”, which allowed it to be rationalized. Students are judged on how well they can perform on multiple standardized exams and higher education is more expensive than ever. Rationalization of the education system has made it a business; a part of the economy. By making higher education costly, it has also weaved out the disadvantaged and allowed for more efficiency. Efficiency, predictability and precision has become the goal. Education has moved away from allowing individual assessment and pushes for a collective knowledge.

In his article “Kenneth Cole Gets Schooled” David Sirota writes, “Taking an honest look at America’s education system brings up queries about why other less economically stratified nations have unionized teachers and far better academic results than here in America (761)” Students in other countries such as Korea, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada have far better academic results than those in America, yet the teachers are not the one who need to be accepting all the blame for the failing academic standards. I am an elementary education major and have grown up as a teacher’s kid and have always found this statement and fact somewhat interesting. Now attending college I understand this statement, and

Students from Arab and Muslim culture will bring unique and positive qualities to our classrooms that need to be recognized and valued. Teachers have a strong influence on how comfortable a student will feel in the classroom community. I believe it is important to create an environment where students feel safe to ask questions, share their culture, be themselves, believe in what they want to believe, and be celebrated for their differences as well as similarities. I believe each culture brings forth students that have a vast array of talents and it is important to know them so that you can teach to those students accordingly.

As a child, I knew money was scarce. Though my family had one parent and one income, we sufficed. On the news, reporters spoke of the economic downfall. Elementary teachers discussed the economic social ladder and daily statistics about increasing poverty levels. But what is poverty?