Broken Education Case Study

Broken Education, Broken Future Throughout the many years of school, there has always been those couple of classes that everyone dreads to attend. One of said classes being mathematics class. So many formulas and long problem solving processes, not to mention the mountain of homework to be assigned that night. My question is, why do kids feel this way about all of the math classes? Math surely can’t be all that bad. I found some of the answers in an article in the New York Times titled, “Who says math has to be boring?” In this article, Chris Cascarno and the rest of the Editorial Board at the New York Times expose many of the problems with the way many math, science and engineering classes have been set up. I agree with many of these reasons, however, I feel that they could’ve dug deeper into the surrounding of each situation. In the article, they describe how a shockingly large portion, about 90%, of students in …show more content…
Many teachers and students feel that these standards made are very suffocating. Many members of my family teach, and this is the commonality in all of their complaints as teachers. All of these guidelines and standardized tests make teaching way more difficult. They can’t make learning fun, which causes the hate of the STEM subjects. Common core, leads a course load heavy in math and science, which is nice, but over exposer can lead to students hating it. I agree that these standards should be looser and allow more wiggle room to figure out the best way to teach the material and keep the students attention. This will also cause less stress among both students and teachers and the overall scores on the tests would improve. All of this is very true, but mostly for the single classes. Each student, at least in high school, takes up to 7 classes plus extracurricular activities after school. That is a lot on one teenager’s back, and that could lead to some of the distaste in these