How To Improve Education In America

There are different ways in improving education in America, such as; promoting healthy developments, practicing social competence and changing classroom settings. The PISA indicates that American Children's education has decreased, gaps in education among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups have increased, and that classroom experiences and teacher to student interaction influences the motivation of achievement in school.

American Children are behind in academic achievement because they are not promoting healthy developments, not practicing social competence and are in a traditional classroom setting. If more American children would promote healthy developments by playing sports it would also help them increase life skills that are used everyday. By playing sports they could achieve five concepts, competence, confidence, connections, character, and caring. If children also practice social competence, they would collect social skills that would help them learn how to act more successfully in social contexts and they would learn how …show more content…
Ethnic groups may have problems in achieving education because of racial discrimination, students might feel neglected by their peers and become isolated and very quiet. This can be a problem in education because children will no concentrate in academic but they will be thinking more in what others are going to tell them and what others might think. Also for example, Blacks and Hispanics often have less opportunities for advancement because of being immigrants. Socioeconomic groups can also not have many opportunities of education because of low income. People that are poor can not give their children a good education and often kids have to work in order to have what they need at home like food. Many children in low socioeconomic groups, that work often just think about helping their parents and forget that they have to learn and move