1. According to Ravitch, is public education broken and in need of fixing? Discuss her arguments regarding this situation.
According to Ravitch our public education is this country is not broken, however it does require repairing. She explains in various ways how people who call for a different type of education system such as, charter schools, online schools, and vouchers, are higher government reformers who consider themselves the saviors of education in this country, yet they appeal the basic ideas that this country stands behind— ideas implanted in the bill of rights, the ideas of freedom, choice, and optimism are being deprived from the children, the teachers, and the staff who are forced to move away from the traditional public education system. This is all caused by the so-called “reforms” and how instead of uniting and progressing the educational system, they have struck the heart of the institutions and destroyed slowly. Ravitch explains how the low standards for students and teachers must be repaired in order to bring back the educational system that this country once had.
2. According to Ravitch, is the educational reform movement’s purpose to reform public education? Describe her view on this. …show more content…
These reforms have caused much of the funding used for public schools to be transferred to different programs, such as vouchers, and charter schools, these options are the main interest of profiteering, fraud, and exploitation by large and small entrepreneurs. Where we are at the moment is not an attempt to reform the school but it is a deliberate effort to replace public education with a privately managed, free-market system of schooling, this is an interest held purely for profit and not to educate the youth and help the younger generation learn and move
According to Ravitch our public education is this country is not broken, however it does require repairing. She explains in various ways how people who call for a different type of education system such as, charter schools, online schools, and vouchers, are higher government reformers who consider themselves the saviors of education in this country, yet they appeal the basic ideas that this country stands behind— ideas implanted in the bill of rights, the ideas of freedom, choice, and optimism are being deprived from the children, the teachers, and the staff who are forced to move away from the traditional public education system. This is all caused by the so-called “reforms” and how instead of uniting and progressing the educational system, they have struck the heart of the institutions and destroyed slowly. Ravitch explains how the low standards for students and teachers must be repaired in order to bring back the educational system that this country once had.
2. According to Ravitch, is the educational reform movement’s purpose to reform public education? Describe her view on this. …show more content…
These reforms have caused much of the funding used for public schools to be transferred to different programs, such as vouchers, and charter schools, these options are the main interest of profiteering, fraud, and exploitation by large and small entrepreneurs. Where we are at the moment is not an attempt to reform the school but it is a deliberate effort to replace public education with a privately managed, free-market system of schooling, this is an interest held purely for profit and not to educate the youth and help the younger generation learn and move