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
“Dumbing Down” America The one thing you were always pushed and told to do when you were in school was to get an education, so you can get a good job and be successful. You need an education to get anywhere in the world. Schools in America were regarded as the best schools in the world up to the 1970's. Today, compared to the development of Asian and European schools, American schools are ranked as some of the lowest schools. Some students are graduating from high school with little or more knowledge about the core classes, some people that graduate they say are illiterate.
But the major isn’t nearly as important as the toolbox of skills you come out with and the experiences you have’”(Zernike). Students are increasingly focused on how their major will translate into a job. Zernike interviews multiple professors and advisors from schools all over the country and somewhat of a consensus is found. Taking ‘abstract’ courses and getting involved with different things other than having a set major will lead to more ‘self-discovery’. “I think people change a great deal between 18 and 22” – Dr. Neuhauser, president of St. Michael’s College.
While unemployment systems are good places to find people looking for a job, those that apply may either not fit into the Tanglewood mold or will move onto another job before the process is over. Tanglewood needs to target those candidates from local high schools and colleges which will prove to be possible management material as they continue in their educational careers. By targeting those that don’t absolutely need a job right now, they will be able to carefully select the right applicants. Recruitment costs will be low too because the money will be moved to retentions costs by providing education assistance. 3.
Gerald Graff points out the pressure that society and school put on students to be academically intelligent. Students must have the perfect grades and attend the highest ranking school. Students also have to go to extreme measures to just get through one class because they know that failing is not a option. As Graff says, “To say that students need to see their interests “through academic eyes” is to say that street smarts are not enough” (p.303). I agree with what Graff says and also agree when he says, “The challenge, as a college professor Ned Laff has put it, “is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes” (p.302).
The high school plan is still under development and revision, but these students are provided Honors, Honors Advanced and AP classes. I am reviewing the plan for Clinton City Schools. I was very disappointed with the CCS plan. There were several areas that I felt were in the proficient category, but there were more developing and not evidenced at all. 2.1.1 Educators develop an environment that encourages giftedness
Then they will have a very narrow minded education. They will only know in depth about their subject area, and in a world that is changing every second it is good have a broader education. By eliminating the large number of general education requirements and adding more major requierment students will be able to expand their horizons and take classes that may interest them. In conclusion, students at the new NCSU campus should
Their perspective on how the underachieved educational system is, alongside my encounters with complex of schooling. In high school, we are given many standards every day that we must meet in order to be considered successful, but the reality is; these standards are fruitless in expectation for colleges and universities. In high school I did not get the English composition skills, to prepare me for my college courses. They are right about their belief that the professors in the universities are very inspired in some ways to give their standards to the students in depth knowledge to set higher standards, however, it is not good to know that some high school students still enter Americas elite schools through remedial process, because it might agitate the worldwide standards set by the school
Personally I agree with both authors but only up to a certain point. I agree with how Gatto describes the United States is falling further behind in education while he provides us with the contradictory thought that education may not be paramount to a person’s success (Gatto). With many of our greatest minds, having gone no further than secondary education, the key is to give our adolescents more chances to “let them manage themselves” (Gatto, 28) while trying to increase the achievements of people who are not born into the upper class. Like many social constructs, the elitist succeed, while others are left behind. Gatto contends that “schools really are laboratories of experimentation on young minds” (Gatto, 28).
My goal in life is to make a difference and to more for the better then for the worse, because you never know what life will have in store for you. Life can give and it can take, and you just have to work with it, I learned that at age