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    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

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    Is The American Education system working? Student loan debt is responsible for $1.2 Trillion of the US 's national debt. Over the past several years, the youth of this country’s futures have been based off of social status and test scores. A student from the suburbs of a wealthy community is more likely to go on to a prosperous four year college than a colored male or female from the inner city. These are facts that should not be overlooked; by any means. This subject is not black and white or rich

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    list goes on and on. And although a lot these claims made by America is true, none can doubt that this country has its fair share of flaws. A flaw in the American system is the lack of education many people receive. I am making this claim because the number of people I see in the street that are poor. These people don’t have access to quality education which prevents them from getting jobs. In the essay, I will dissect this issue

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    American Education System versus Asian Education System Today the American education system is no longer the best in the world. With declining test scores and poor academic achievement, people have questioned whether our current educational system is working for us? On the other side of the Pacific, the situation is totally different. Students of Asian countries achieve higher academic achievements, and they rank at the top on math and science tests. If their educational system is better than

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    Part Four: Importance to the American Education System 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

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    each country’s educational system is different. Many organizations rank each country’s educational system by the students’ scores on standardized math and science testing or overall academic performance in order to compare them and evaluate each country’s success in the world of education. This data is incredibly useful in comparing literacy rates, many statistical pursuits, and in finding places where the systems need improvement. However, while comparing educational systems based solely on academic

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    American Education Reform Paper In the past, the learning system was non complex. Students invariably learned in classrooms. They would learn from and be educated by their teacher and grasped other facts from textbooks. The teachers would ask them questions and students would answer them to display they understood. Other information about other parts of the world, they learned from books. Throughout the years, the learning system changed. Issues or flaws in the system were addressed and improved

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    The American education system, more specifically the high school system, has not changed for the time that my classmates and I have been alive. The system was implemented to insure that each American citizen had an equal opportunity to prosper. However many of my peers in high school are immature. Most students envision sports as success and schools encourage. To underline issues surrounding the maturity of students after high school, source B explains how the new generations have earlier signs of

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    After analyzing the results of the averages for the five poorest and five richest elementary schools in Columbus, it is clear that an education gap is still very prevalent. As seen in Table 1 below, the five poorest student bodies receive an average of $4939 per student while the five richest schools averaged $6596.2 per student. There is a clear difference here, each student in the richest schools receives, on average, about fifteen hundred more dollars than a student of the poorest schools. In

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    and political system. Millions of foreign students come to America for higher education each year. Ironically enough, America public school system is not so glorious. Indeed, it is not effective where teachers and students lacked motivation and interaction to develop critical thinking and innovation. Michael Moore in the article “Idiot Nation” and John Taylor Gatto in “Against School” argued that the education system in the United States is deeply flawed. Moore elaborated school system has a poor curriculum

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