In Trump’s new budget outline he proposed to cut billions of dollars from government funded agencies. However, Veteran Affairs, Defense, and Homeland Security received an increase in funding. The biggest government funded agency is the military defense, which attained 521.7 billion dollars. Trump plans to increase this fund by ten percent adding an extra 52.3 billion dollars. While the military defense is acquiring over five hundred billion dollars in funding, the question is how much is the education system-- the backbone of society-- receiving? The education system is receiving a mere fifty-nine billion dollar budget, which is a nine billion dollar difference from past years. This might sound like a large amount of money, but in reality it
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Each year funding continues to decrease. Because the state and government funding has gone severely down, tuition costs have gone up. In the documentary, Starving the Beast, directed by Steve Mims it states: “I think we all agree now that college costs too much, delivers too little, and has to change.” With higher education costing an extreme amount of money, most people would think the learning opportunities would exceed the expectation; however, in reality most public schools are failing to live up to the standards (Michaelm). Why are these public institutions not meeting or exceeding their goals? The government is “designing the system to fail. You make sure that a public institution cannot perform its duties and then you blame it for failing to live up to its goals and perform its duties” (Starving the Beast). The decrease in the education budget in Trump’s new proposal shows that higher education is becoming less of a necessity and more of a commodity. In a recent “urban political campaign” more people are “mistaking that students are consumers rather than students and future citizens” (Starving the Beast). College and university students are the future of United States; they will be the new generation who will vote for the changes in our country. If the next generations are not educated, there will be disastrous results. Basic education and higher education are …show more content…
In preschool and early elementary education, art is a substantial part of the developmental learning in children. When children draw with a crayon or paint a picture with a paint brush they are developing fine motor skills by learning to hold the utensils correctly (Lynch). Art can also help preschooler with language development and decision making; discussing art in the classroom can help the preschoolers learn about different colors and shapes. The children can learn about making decisions by choosing different utensils and colors to fit the art they are making (Lynch). Culture awareness can be a difficult subject for preschoolers to grasp; however, through studying art children can learn about different aspects of culture portrayed in the piece (Lynch). When preschoolers take new risks through creating art, they learn to be inventive and to think outside the
Each year funding continues to decrease. Because the state and government funding has gone severely down, tuition costs have gone up. In the documentary, Starving the Beast, directed by Steve Mims it states: “I think we all agree now that college costs too much, delivers too little, and has to change.” With higher education costing an extreme amount of money, most people would think the learning opportunities would exceed the expectation; however, in reality most public schools are failing to live up to the standards (Michaelm). Why are these public institutions not meeting or exceeding their goals? The government is “designing the system to fail. You make sure that a public institution cannot perform its duties and then you blame it for failing to live up to its goals and perform its duties” (Starving the Beast). The decrease in the education budget in Trump’s new proposal shows that higher education is becoming less of a necessity and more of a commodity. In a recent “urban political campaign” more people are “mistaking that students are consumers rather than students and future citizens” (Starving the Beast). College and university students are the future of United States; they will be the new generation who will vote for the changes in our country. If the next generations are not educated, there will be disastrous results. Basic education and higher education are …show more content…
In preschool and early elementary education, art is a substantial part of the developmental learning in children. When children draw with a crayon or paint a picture with a paint brush they are developing fine motor skills by learning to hold the utensils correctly (Lynch). Art can also help preschooler with language development and decision making; discussing art in the classroom can help the preschoolers learn about different colors and shapes. The children can learn about making decisions by choosing different utensils and colors to fit the art they are making (Lynch). Culture awareness can be a difficult subject for preschoolers to grasp; however, through studying art children can learn about different aspects of culture portrayed in the piece (Lynch). When preschoolers take new risks through creating art, they learn to be inventive and to think outside the