(“States Seeks to Block ‘No Child Left Behind’”). Even gym and recess are being reduced in schools around the United States due to teaching being pointed towards the test. This has only caused a negative effect as the number of obese children has risen. Standardized test and the NCLB Act are only harming the health of children- mentally and physically. Furthermore, United States needs to follow the following guidelines that countries more advanced in education than the United States have been following.
A lack of knowledge, both civic and wide-ranging, is the most significant deficit in most American students’ education. For the most part our students and teachers are bright, committed, well-meaning and good-natured. Many students and teachers are working harder in school that their counterparts did a decade ago. Yet most students still lack basic information that high school and college teachers once took for granted. This lack of knowledge is even more important than most people realize.
Everything academic revolves around the year-end state testing to the point that other subjects are usually neglected. Reading, math and writing are the main thrusts of schools, and are obviously important. However, critics state that children are not receiving well-rounded educations because of the emphasis on these subjects
The broken windows, terrible condition of the school position the readers to show pity for the children studying in the schools. The two students in the cartoons also appeal to the reader’s emotion as they wish the school had facilities. This shows that state schools are poorly resourced due to the lack of “shelter sheds” and other important resources to provide the children with a good study environment. The editor concludes by saying “We ought to grasp it”. By placing a strong inclusive sentence at the end creates an impact on the reader.
The percentage of high school drop outs in United States is very high, and some these students that drop out end up in prison or other terrible places such as drug dealing or gangs. In the documentary they also showed some schools with a lot of gang activity and gang violence. Parents of these students work very hard to pay taxes and keep there children in school, in hop that there children will get a good education. Some parents take tons of loans so they can send there kids to a private school, because the public schools are not teaching there students well. These hard working parents and dedicated teachers all want to see America with a brighter future, they are doing what they can to make sure that there children grow up to be important part of a good generation.
In the second paragraph of the March 2006 article by Patrick Welsh, he stated that, “Kids who had emigrated from foreign countries often aced every test, while many of their U.S.-born classmates from upper-class homes with highly educated parents had a string of C’s and D’s.” Social status does have a little to do with what grade a student receives, yes, but if s/he wants to excel in school s/he will set their mind to it, regardless of what sort of background they come from. If Welsh’s students really don’t have the motivation, our country should be blamed, not the students who follow the low standards that we have set. I’m not just blaming the students and I’m not just blaming the students. Nor am I blaming our countries government or our foreign students. I’m blaming all of us as a whole because we have done this to ourselves and we just watched and let it happen.
Since year round schooling has one group of students that are on vacation for a week while the rest of school is in secession, it allows for class room space to be used more and a single teacher would Evers # be able to teach more students because of the way that year round schooling is set up. If a school is looked at like a business, the most expensive asset a school can have is the employees. By costing anywhere from $30,000- $150,000 a year, it is important for a business man or a superintendent to realize that if budget cuts are needed that employees should be one of the first places to look. At the same time though, employees that are needed for work to get done cannot get fired. Year round schooling would allow for schools to hire less teachers because
Ever since then, every grade level has to take a state test. Many public schools had to defund the arts programs to improve the state test scores in the required subjects. Schools that are performing the lowest are pressured to concentrate on having more qualified teachers to teach reading, math, and history classes rather than art, theater, and music classes. Kathleen Manzo with knowledge of education and social policy finds the problems is that the budget cuts and the shortage of teachers will cause less time for the resources that can be used in the art programs. Without the arts, the school is reducing the capability to give young students a complete education.
1) Suggest three factors within schools that may lead to the educational under-achievement of pupils from some minority ethnic groups. (6marks) 2) Suggest three material factors that might cause working-class educational underachievement. (6 marks) One material factor that may cause working class underachievement is lack of workspace at home. Poverty leads to material deprivation whereby this involves cramped housing, an environment where the child has no space for homework and where illnesses spread quickly. This means that the children are unable to do homework, thus fall behind on work in class, which in turn leads to low educational attainment.
[1] Different people from different countries look up to America not just the country of freedom but also the “land of oppurtunity”. Compared to other countries Americans work more hours per week; however, I wish we can also the say the same when it comes to our children's education. How can we still say that our children is our future when they are not even being motivated the right way when it comes to their education? To begin with, library loss has had a big effect on our children's education. Shutting down libraries may help bring some funds back to our countries but in return children are losing their freedom of reading.