Why School By Mike Rose Summary

“Education has been shaped by a concern about economic readiness and competitiveness.” Mike Rose stated in his excerpt. Rose’s main idea about “Why School” is not only based on socio economics, standard of schooling, but also focused on how to give students, educators and parents a better system for education that’s beneficial for the whole society of the United States. As an example, Mike came from the working class who has achieved financial mobility through schooling, he knew in fact that education and economic well-being is closely linked. However, he emphasize education method such as standardized testing creates major stress to students and teachers, while it doesn’t necessarily aim on the purpose of public education.

First, owing to the problems which the purpose of our nation’s education is skewed to economic readiness and competitiveness, some people think that the key to solving these issues is to stop the overwhelming standardardized testing in schools. In my opinion, I completely disagree with that idea. To achieve academic success is not simple, it takes a combination of skills such as time management, concentration, and motivation. In order to have a better …show more content…
In fact, when kids stepped into kindergarten the first day, their behavior and ability are graded with scores from A to F. At the same time, competition exist everywhere from daily life, school, and companies. Sometimes, there are people like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs who drop out college or didn’t attend college end up in financial success. I think these people are very rare, their brilliant or intelligent minds do not shine in standardized testing because they have an extraordinary mind with sufficient economic supports. Therefore, standardized testing is essential in an education system, because not everyone has a ability to be successful without