Educational Dilemma
Education is the essential foundation for the progressing of our nation as well as the stimulation for our children. Now, as some may or may-not know that learning gives forth children the accessibility to succeed in physical, intellectual, and even emotional endeavors. Education tends to incline us to widen the door towards attainment in the future. As individuals receive an education, they are more capable to obtain better employment. Views tend to be various to our educational system. Throughout America’s history, students, parents, educators, and government authority have discussed what changes must be made in America’s public school system. We agree changes need to be made to reach goals that will prepare our future …show more content…
See, other countries come here already knowing English as a second language, the school system is not embedding foreign languages in our public school curriculum, since reasoning and understanding is easily attainable at a young age, then different languages should be taught starting during elementary school. Also, during the school year of 2013-2014 there was an attendance of 55 million students in the public schools throughout the country (Graff).Since there is an increased enrollment in attendance and technologies, there tend to be more subjects that need to be taught and learned to students in this ruthless and productive job market. Now, the United States General Accounting Office calculated roughly that about one third of American students, and about fourteen million children nationwide, attend “inadequate” schools (Stossel’s). Besides, collapsed facilities, public schools face dissimilarities of academic and disciplinary hardship. As stated by a USA Today poll, ¨around seventy-two percent of Americans quote that violence and drugs are serious troubles in their local schools. Sixty-one percent believe that academic standards are too low and that the lack of discipline and low graduation rates is ranked as one of the humongous worries facing the public school system (Edmunds A2) …show more content…
KIPP was produced with one goal in mind and that is to get low-income minority students to go to college. Throughout 2009-2010, KIPP enrolled about 22,000 students, 97% of were African-American and Latino (KIPP Foundation, 2009). The students who finished 8th grade at the KIPP School, approximately 95% graduated from high school and 90% of them were enrolled in an accredited university. Which contrasted to the public school systems 70% of high school graduates and 40% of the students going to college for low-income students (KIPP Foundation, 2010). Claimed by a current study of 23 KIPP schools, around three years, about half of those KIPP schools in the study there was about one half or more of the black-white accomplishment gap in math, and one third of the black-white attainment gap in reading. In these KIPP schools, students gained over 1.2 years of supplemental development in mathematics and one year of development in reading over a three year span (Tuttle, The, Nichols-Barrer, Gill &ump; Gleason,
Education is the essential foundation for the progressing of our nation as well as the stimulation for our children. Now, as some may or may-not know that learning gives forth children the accessibility to succeed in physical, intellectual, and even emotional endeavors. Education tends to incline us to widen the door towards attainment in the future. As individuals receive an education, they are more capable to obtain better employment. Views tend to be various to our educational system. Throughout America’s history, students, parents, educators, and government authority have discussed what changes must be made in America’s public school system. We agree changes need to be made to reach goals that will prepare our future …show more content…
See, other countries come here already knowing English as a second language, the school system is not embedding foreign languages in our public school curriculum, since reasoning and understanding is easily attainable at a young age, then different languages should be taught starting during elementary school. Also, during the school year of 2013-2014 there was an attendance of 55 million students in the public schools throughout the country (Graff).Since there is an increased enrollment in attendance and technologies, there tend to be more subjects that need to be taught and learned to students in this ruthless and productive job market. Now, the United States General Accounting Office calculated roughly that about one third of American students, and about fourteen million children nationwide, attend “inadequate” schools (Stossel’s). Besides, collapsed facilities, public schools face dissimilarities of academic and disciplinary hardship. As stated by a USA Today poll, ¨around seventy-two percent of Americans quote that violence and drugs are serious troubles in their local schools. Sixty-one percent believe that academic standards are too low and that the lack of discipline and low graduation rates is ranked as one of the humongous worries facing the public school system (Edmunds A2) …show more content…
KIPP was produced with one goal in mind and that is to get low-income minority students to go to college. Throughout 2009-2010, KIPP enrolled about 22,000 students, 97% of were African-American and Latino (KIPP Foundation, 2009). The students who finished 8th grade at the KIPP School, approximately 95% graduated from high school and 90% of them were enrolled in an accredited university. Which contrasted to the public school systems 70% of high school graduates and 40% of the students going to college for low-income students (KIPP Foundation, 2010). Claimed by a current study of 23 KIPP schools, around three years, about half of those KIPP schools in the study there was about one half or more of the black-white accomplishment gap in math, and one third of the black-white attainment gap in reading. In these KIPP schools, students gained over 1.2 years of supplemental development in mathematics and one year of development in reading over a three year span (Tuttle, The, Nichols-Barrer, Gill &ump; Gleason,