The Role Of Education In Education

A quality education is essential to providing young adults with the life skills mandatory to become productive members of society. The motivation for excellence through education can inspire and direct a student toward the collegiate education that is required for today’s “degree driven” society. A quality education can take place in an environment where both students and teachers can solely focus on instruction. This environment can be produced through school uniforms, smaller student to teacher ratio, technology enhanced classrooms, and after school activities.

The question of should girls and boys be taught separately is a question that is constantly being discussed and the answer is no, they shouldn't. An obvious reason for coed teaching would be the lack of gender equality in America already, separating girls and boys would just be back-tracking all the hard work that both men and women have for worked for to have equality between genders. Another reason would be if schools taught males separate from females, the learning would be unbalanced, an article called “Should boys and girls be taught separately in our schools?” written by former teacher and a researcher at education think tank LKMco Ellie Mulcahy, states that “In 2016, 76% of psychology and 73% of English A-level entries came from girls. On the flip side, more than nine in 10 young people taking computing A-level are boys.” Students should be provided the same education to produce a more unbiased society.

Very little is known about how many students went to these schools or the significance of the education given to students in these schools, but it is very certain that almost all of the teachers of these schools fled Iran after the Islamic revolution started and that others have been jailed or fired for not supporting the revolution. All of Iran’s schools are run by the government’s Ministry of Education and Training. Additionally, the political ruler of Iran, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, didn’t restrict education for females as many Iranians feared he would, but he did proclaim sexual segregation on the Iranian school system; so now, all boys and girls are educated separately by their genders at all grade levels. All schooling is free, but students who wish to study at a college must be content with working for the government for an equal amount of time spent at the college. One field in which the shah improved greatly upon in Iran was in health care. Diseases like malaria, smallpox, amoebic dysentery, cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, venereal disease , and other harmful infections that have run free through Iran since ancient times were finally being brought under control. During the 1960s, hospitals were constructed in many cities and a health organization composed of young physicians and trained secondary-school volunteers was created in 1964 and they set out to take basic medical care in mountain valleys and remote villages. By 1979, Iran had one doctor for

These differences in achievement do not in any way result from an inherently lower IQ in disadvantaged children. Research suggests that, aside from family situation and parental involvement, the strongest contributing factor may be the neighborhood in which a child grows up. Indeed, research demonstrates a clear relationship between a better neighborhood and more favorable educational outcomes. The community environment in which children are raised has a significant ability to instill in them either positive or negative values.

Letter 8, question 2: Why should an educator know the concrete world where their students live? Why does Freire use the expressive term “concrete” when describing the environment where students live?

Memorize, test, forget, and repeat are standard procedures for many students. With this structure, students do not have the opportunity to truly learn and process the information they are taught. Students cannot develop interests in varied subjects, which leads to there only being limited options for them in the future. The education system takes the focus off of the students’ futures and puts it on required courses and test scores. As a result, students are not given the opportunity to grow as people and develop interests in subjects other than math and reading. Schools only focus on a required curriculum, which diminishes students’ curiosity and does not allow them to explore subjects that they are interested in; therefore, schools do not produce well-rounded, educated citizens.

I used to work with children with IDD, doing in home school building. I think that children with learning disabilities can be mainstreamed with standard classes and should not be at certain times of their schooling process. I feel it is a great idea to have separate classes and allow the child with a IDD additional consideration, such as due date modifications and extra time on test. I feel it is important to give children growing up what they need in order succeed in the world, and giving that child extra time to grasp and learn information can work out for the best. I strongly feel, the only time that children with a learning disability should be mainstreamed with a standard class, if they are showing tremendous progress in remedial classes and displays that they can uphold the same responsibilities as the other children in the standard class. It is not a smart thing to just mainstream these two types of classes together, because it runs the risk of creating other issues in their lives and academic failures, it needs to be a smooth transition from one type of learning to the next.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today - Malcolm X. ”A well- rounded education is the key to success. School facilities have a impact on teacher and student outcomes. Education still remains an unsolved issue because it singles out minorities. Funding School facilities affect health, behavior, engagement, learning and growth in achievement. Without adequate facilities it is difficult to serve large numbers of students. Education can be a way to convert people’s economic circumstances. Students who have no stability should be supported in and out of the learning environment. If education it provides less opportunities for students. Whether it is a lack of enough textbooks, or defective floors. Students will have no support later on in life. Education should not be questioned just because of economic class or race.

Inclusion in the school systems is important for all people within the school systems, including the parents of students. One parent of three school aged children does not share this perspective. This mother believes that inclusion within the classroom is an expensive form of education in that it takes away from the potential learning for every individual. I believe that inclusion within the classroom actually helps all individuals to have a better education in and outside of the classroom.

“When we think about what it is to be ‘connected,’ we think about memory. We think about history. We think about storytelling. All of these words that we hear—‘literacy,’ ‘inclusion,’ ‘diversity’—those are all words for connection . We need that sense of connection. We need to live in a global sense.” This is one of many important quotes from personal hero Miriam Wright Edelman. Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund and an advocate for all children and their families regardless of race or culture, Marian Wright Edelman, goes on to say, “we must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.” (Siegel, 1995) Transforming movement has been taking place in the area of professional education or development, however, honoring the learning from our educational system through the anthropological lens creates the best environment possible for school cultures and in turn, our society.

In our country’s education system, one can still see the effects history had on its shaping. People that cannot afford a private education are not getting a strong enough education to help them continue on in life. Henrietta Lacks was a woman who had only a few years of primary level education because she had to quit to help on her farm for money. Because she had very little of an education, she had no knowledge of what was happening to her when she would go to the doctor. The doctors took advantage of this and took her cells without her knowing. Henrietta was not able to obtain a quality education due to the fact that her family was poor and needed her help on the farm. Poverty directly correlates with education in that impoverished people do not get equal opportunities in schooling nor are they raised and influenced the same outside of school.

The American system of high school has prevailed for years despite being an ailment in contemporary society. Society is not perfect and will never be, nonetheless, future generations can be prepared to face it and change it through education. However, there are two main flaws of the classic American high school system that obstruct the proper development of students: it doesn’t adequately prepare them for their futures and there is an unhealthy relationship between sports and academics.

The report also recommended that nurses ought to be highly educated and well trained. This would require the improvement of the education system that they have to go through (Donelan, Buerhaus, DesRoches & Burke, 2010). In order to ensure high quality healthcare, the education system should be improved to enable nurses to acquire more competencies such as leadership, collaboration, teamwork, evidence based practice, system improvement, health policy and research among others. There should be opportunities for smooth progression from diplomas through degrees, masters to PhD in congruence with the principle of lifelong learning.

Children not only look to their families for support, but also to their teachers. Teachers play a fundamental role in supporting students who have attracted disability labels. In fact, “any practice that enables individuals to examine their self-perceptions of their learning disability increases the likelihood of them gaining a more favourable perspective of their overall well-being” (Rothman & Cosden, 1995, p. 211). It seems as though including the student in the individualized educational program (IEP) process could help initiate these conversations. When students are included in, or even direct the IEP process, they are able to better recognize their strengths and what they need to do, or need from others to be successful (Seong, Wehmeyer, Palmer, & Little, 2015, p. 133). Students are then able to recognize their positive attributes rather than only the negative attributes associated with disability that they are so used to hearing (Rodis et al., 2001a, p. 18). When students, regardless of ability, recognize that they are supported by their teachers, success, and a more positive sense of self is likely to occur (Hutchinson, 2017, p. 282).

Educational institutions are designed to ready the next generation for careers and the workforce, but how to accomplish this may be very tricky in light of the fact that the jobs of the future don’t exist yet. The known however, is what employers are looking for now and what they feel is needed in the future. According to Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, “The skills needed to succeed in today’s world and the future are curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking and empathy. These skills, interestingly, are the skills specific to human beings that machines and robots cannot do” (Rainie). The work world is changing at an ever-increasing pace and society and future workers need to keep up. The educational system however is stagnant with few real innovations or shifts within the past one hundred and fifty years. Individual assessments, isolated curriculum and mundane facts will not produce the creative, collaborative workforce needed for the future. The current system is designed to create a large number of obedient factory type workers with a small number of special and specifically educated elite at the top to control them. With a shift to technology and globalization, the stagnation within education leaves a dearth of workers for the jobs of the future. Educational systems are producing workers for yesterday, not the present or the future. In order to create students ready of the demands of the 21st century, educational