Posted in School and Schooling, Social and Emotional Development on Apr 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Secondary education in United States
There can be many recommendations made to improve our secondary education system. One recommendation I would suggest is to make our secondary education program stronger and harder. The reason why I want secondary schools to be harder and more effective is so students can come across real challenges as they level up on their way […]
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Posted in School and Schooling, Social and Emotional Development on Apr 11th, 2011 Comments Off on The Importance of Education
The importance of having an education is relevant in the United States. In order to get a well-paying job, most employers require you to have a college degree, which pushes students to continue education. But are United States teachers and government really pushing towards continued education, or do they just want students to pass from […]
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Education in the United States, although it supersedes that of many other nations, still leaves much to be desired. Elementary and secondary education are repetition of one another. As someone that has been schooled in America from kindergarten all the way through college it is easy for me to see that it is repetitive. The school set up, the course curriculum, the environment, and the […]
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I think the most obvious shortcoming in American elementary and secondary education is the lack of individualized hands-on learning available to students. Because most public schools receive funding based on student’s performance on mandatory standardized tests, and because of a lack of resources and faculty, most classrooms follow one curriculum geared solely toward test performance […]
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