When compared to other countries, Americas education system is on a downslide. What can be reasonably done to insure future success?
Education itself needs to be revamped. Some of it will cost money, beyond a doubt. But I think it’s time that the US started, perhaps to follow the European model and dual track the educational system. Not everyone is going to go on to college. And not everybody who goes to college will find that college is for them. Start the whole system with a good base in mathematics and language education. You can translate language education into phonics if you would like. THROW OUT SOCIAL PROMOTION!!! I’m not saying to fail every kid who gets a 49 final mark. But for God’s sake don’t promote a kid who is reading two grades behind the level he should be so that his feelings don’t get hurt. Some standardized tests should be a must, mathematics being a good example. I don’t care where you live, what color you are, what gender you are, 2+2=4. And given a couple of years, every school district in the country should be in step with this easiest of standard testing. Make English the official language.
Our whole educational system needs a major overhaul – updated books in EVERY classroom, and a set standard to which all students should meet before graduating. In theory, the “No Child Left Behind” thing would have worked had the government not been testing teachers and pulling funding from schools who didn’t meet standards and actually needed it. We need to give our schools the necessary funding to further and improve education, I think.
Less government involvement, more parental involvement. I see one answer here is that we need to spend more money on education. I disagree, I think the money spent should be more WISELY spent. We have been pooring boatloads of money into education for decades, with no real positive effect. The funds should be being spent on teachers, good teachers, and poor teachers should be terminated. The only way to attract the best is to have the job pay more. We should spend less on layer after layer of Administration and unnecessary programs and more on good teachers. Stopping the massive invasion from Mexico would be a huge help as well but that is another debate altogether.
quit teaching the test and get rid of the “no child left behind” crap, stop spending more money on prisoners and prisons than we do on schools and education update teaching standards and materials (computers, new texts, up to date information) train teachers to teach in a way that reaches modern children and not use the same methods used for 60 years now, require better standards for becoming a teacher, offer better incentives and pay. include life skills and things that will be applicable to the real world (balancing checkbooks, cooking, paying bills, job searching/applications/intervi ews) for highschool students. Better vocational education options for those who will not be going to college. instilling respect and worth in the educational system not only by the parents (some people think education is solely the responisibility of the school and not the parent and others think of it as daycare and take little interest in the education of their child as long as they pass)but also by t
