“Education is an important institution where individuals learn the process of socialization by which people acquire behaviors essential for effective participation in society. The United
States has a compulsory education system where all children from age 5-17 must be in school for most of every weekday where they learn math, science and social science” (Hughes, 2013).
In the video Changing Education Paradigms, the narrator Ken Robinson states “that the current public education system was designed and conceived in the 19 th century during the
Industrial Revolution because of the economic circumstances at the time. It was a Revolutionary idea that was paid for with taxes.” Ken Robinson says that the school system is modeled on the interests of industrialization. Schools are organized on factory lines by separating the subjects they learn and educating kids by batches separated by age group.
Public education is all about conformity and standardized testing. Standardized testing is not the best indicator of how students are doing in school. “The effects of standardized education are to make sure that all schools were teaching the same standards so that we didn't have inequities in the schools” (ProCon.org,2014). Since not all states have the same standards now most schools are switching to common core education. Students have different ways of learning like they are visual learners, physical learners or verbal learners. Most teachers only cater to one type of learning style. Also they might not have the best teachers teaching them the material and this gives them unequal education opportunity. Students from low-income neighborhoods and minority backgrounds, English language learners as their second la...
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...we need to make sure that our public educational system graduates students that are ready for the real world.
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California Department of Education.(2013). Common Core.
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New England Complex Systems Institute.(2012). Changes in the Teaching and Learning Process in a complex Education System. Retrieved from http://www.necsi.edu/research/management/education/teachandlearn.html ProCon.org.(2014). Standardized Tests.
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Wisconsin Center for Education Research.(2007). What Will Decrease Educational Inequality?
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Frontline. (2014). How bad are the Public Schools?
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