“In addition, the laws fail to address the pressing problems of unequal educational resources across schools serving the wealthy and poor children and the shortage of well- prepared teachers in high-need schools." The factors that I believe contribute to performance are teachers and resources. Unfortunately, the complex requirements of the law have failed to achieve the goal of closing the gap and have sparked a number of unintended consequences that in most cases harm the students. Stringent measures have caused districts to compete for funding that is causing an unfair distribution funding to lower income communities. The practices that some of these districts are of a false and malicious nature.
In this article Prothero blames America’s religious ignorance on our schools. He says, “most of the fault lies in our elementary and secondary schools” (Prothero). Prothero uses statistics, quotation and comparison to effectively create a convincing, persuasive essay. Prothero begins his essay by talking about how America is such a religious country, but the citizens of America are lacking education about religion. He goes on to say that European countries, although far less religious, are considerably more educated when it comes to the subject.
Ashley Professor R English100 3 September 2012 Comparisons on the Declining School System Have you ever thought school was boring and your teachers looked like they did not want to be there? In Ken Robinson’s video, he draws and explains the public education system and why it is not working for America today. Throughout the video he makes points that relate to Michael Moore’s excerpt “Idiot Nation”. Both men think that the school system is suppressing the students and is outdated for our nation and teachers do not have adequate supplies to teach. They want a change in the education system so that children can prosper and be able to boost our declining economy.
What It Means To Be A Educated Person In America In today’s society, being well-educated means you’ll get your dream job, house and family o so it seems. In his essay “ Idiot Nation” Michael Moore argues, his view on the failures of the educational system and the lack of financing that has been caused by politicians as well as American corporations contribute to the decline in education. The author uses humor to address the faults in schools, while he presents his view points on the educational system in America and lacks credibility and effectiveness that is found in non-subjective essays that reports solely on factual evidence while remaining impartial. Being educated in America means that a person is to a certain level of knowledge that not many people have like History, Economics, Algebra, Physics, Phycology and other intellectual information or knowledge. Attending 2 year college to receive associates and then transferring to a university is seen as a very prepared and smart person, but isn’t always as it seems.
The Atlanta school cheatings scandal has significant because believed to be the biggest in the nation's history. Its shows, that there is corruption in the American school, the No Student Left behind is based on test the school test scores, if the school has above average test scores. Their education board will get a higher budget for spending on improving the overall school, or providing teachers with bonus. The No Children Left Behind law should provide the school with lower test scores, and get the extra federal funds. This would allow for more motivation in the school`s that are in more rural areas because if the public will see their education buildings becoming more attractive to the eye.
This fact, however, hasn’t met the expectation of formal education as presented in international reports, which use the word “children” almost worldwide, instead of “youth” and “young people”. Occasionally, the term “young adult” is used, but almost in reference to school drop-outs and illiteracy problem. It seems that we have overlooked the effects of youth education, which would highly possibly become enormous aftermath on an individual as well as a whole society. The governments are becoming more and more absorbed in, for instance, economic and military investments, rather than their educational systems. Thus, the budgets for the domain of education have been cut off in many countries, which results in dramatic losses in schools’ facilities, technology and extracurricular activities.
Equal political voice and the opportunity to participate in democracy are certainly valued ideals, as generations of Americans, from the colonists of late eighteenth century to women of the early twentieth century, have fought for their place in this country. Every vote is crucial to the development and maintenance of America, representing the voice of the citizens for politicians to act upon. Unfortunately, the American people are heard unequally and unjustly. The gap between who is and is not able to partake in United States politics is steadily increasing. The privileged and well organized wealthy upper class of this country dominate the polls, the majority of the U.S. is not represented in election, further slowing the progress of political reform.
Conversely, the Montessori camp believed that the Froebelian method over sentimentalized education in young children and relied too heavily on myths, fables and stories. Instead of stories, Montessori’s methods used science to spark interest and imagination in students (Gutek, p. 276). Montessori further believed that the romantic philosophy of education often failed to “cultivate the child’s possibilities for skill mastery and intellectual achievement” (p. 275). Friedrich Froebel and Maria Montessori are two of the most popular educational theorists. While their theories can have similarities they also have a lot of differences.
It goes without saying; we are significantly influenced by history. History has affected our media, our music, our fashion, and many other things. There are many things that are more important than the luxuries we enjoy that history has influenced, such as our life choices. Throughout history we have learned from other peoples’ mistakes and people benefit by using others to push themselves higher at the expense of that person. For example, common sense says that most people who dropped out of high school, abused illegal substances, and do not have an education higher than 10th grade, did not end up to be the next CEO and president of the most successful Fortune 500 company to date.
In the long history, there are considerable cases in which individuals shifted from a low social status to political prominence through success in imperial examination. After the imperial examination was abolished, the university entrance examination took the place and became a means for people to get employment in the state sector. Today, as the labor market became tight, the competition to enter top school is no less competitive. For many years, the examination system has been criticized for focusing only on academic performance, not being able to promote ability building. In America, the highest values of education in a democracy are more than the competitive advantage of an increasingly