The Importance Of Political Issues In Education

The political issues in education have been around so years. They have been evolving with the times and putting their main focus on making education look good. They are spending more and more money to develop programs that will help the education in schools but they are taking away the intimacy between the specified needs of the students. In a speech given by Samuel L. Blumenfeld in 1994, he said that, “Education in America is a political issue. Government education which not only includes the elementary and secondary public schools, but also the state universities, community colleges, and they many private institutions that receive government grants- all of that government education represents the largest single river of cash flow in America financed by the taxpayer” (par 1).

This in still true today as the schools are still dependent on taxpayer money. Federal funding is hard to come by when the

This needs to be changed because you cannot base a teacher’s teaching skills on a student’s test scores if what they are testing on is not what is primarily being taught. With education being the “...primary driver of economic growth and stability for nations and individuals” (Powers 1), education has become a place that could make or break a community. This is why I believe that federal funding needs to be used for the better of the school and its participants and not trying to make a new curriculum that focuses solely on standardized testing and taking away money from teachers who’s test scores are not as high as others, while I do think that the teachers with the best recommendations and more work experience should be eligible for higher pay. The political issues in education now will forever be in education. Examples from the past should be used as a guide of how situations should be handled and who all should be involved with deciding what is best for the school, the community, and the