Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2011 Comments Off on school and schooling
The significance of school is critical to consider in the context of a child’s development. An individual in America spends approximately seventeen or eighteen years in school (pre-k- graduating college), therefore school is bound to impact the attendee. In order to improve our elementary/secondary education system in the United States I would recommend an increase […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 13th, 2011 Comments Off on What changes would you recommend in order to improve our education system?
Discuss the shortcomings of elementary and/or secondary education in the United States. What changes would you recommend in order to improve our education system? The changes that I would strongly recommend would be the following: Reducing class sizes and overcrowding in classrooms. For instances, some classes can take up to five hundred students at […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 13th, 2011 Comments Off on School Shortcomings
“What you learn now will help you in your years to come”. We all heard this when we went to school and children still hear it to this day. Yet school systems these days do not teach children to their full potential and they do not do all that is possible for children. From classroom […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2011 2 Comments »
As the richest country in the world, many would expect the United States of America to be world leaders in just about every category from military to GDP to even education. However, the sad reality is that the United States isn’t even in the top 10 when it comes down to education. Many people […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 13th, 2011 Comments Off on The many short-comings of the U.S education system.
There are many shortcomings when it comes to the education of students in the United States. Perhaps it’s the way a teacher is teaching their students, or it can be because of the child’s background with family and parenting. However I think the roots of all the different problems when it comes to education is, […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on
Throughout ones education I believe that most of what you learn is repeated and just become a little more descriptive and complicated as you get older. It is important for the families to support a childs emergent literacy and numercy skills in order for them to grasp further concepts that are taught in school. The experience and influences […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on US Education and it’s Shortcomings
There has been great debate over which teaching styles and methods maximize educational results. Many studies have proven that typical methods implemented in schools throughout the United States are in fact obsolete. There are many shortcomings of the elementary education within the US, and after reading chapter 12 I feel that there are many changes […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on The Shortcomings of the U.S. Education System
There is a general consensus that the United States education system is one of the best in the world. We have some of the best and most prestigious universities and college, even so that students from various countries all over the globe compete to attend them. However, this is not the same view people have […]
Posted in School and Schooling on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Insufficiencies of the schooling system
Education is the social process in which adults engage in explicit instruction of the young in order to transmit specialized knowledge and skills of their culture. This is the whole concept behind our education systems where we have one adult (the teacher) giving instructions to children in order to give them the concepts and knowledge […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Education in the US
Our education system today has many flaws that are detrimental to the students in the US. One of the biggest problems is the lack of individual attention given to the students. Teachers tend to have a fixed way of teaching children to pass the state tests instead of tailoring their teaching techniques to fit a […]
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