Toxic Education Culture

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Toxic Culture of Education Kill Creativity
Education system had always been ambiguous throughout histories from centuries until now. People from generation to generation gone through a never ending debate, about the best education system to implement younger generation. However, as time passes on; the demand of education in society has increased significantly although government has not prepared the suitable and proper education yet. This situation give a chance for companies and industries to take control and benefit in the education system, “Thus we have created toxic culture of education.” Said the author from the article.
Toxic education culture is term for an endless cycle of benefiting companies (publisher, education, learning industries,
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People are classified by their intellectual model of mind within two groups, the academic and the non-academic. Therefore, the NCLB concept brought disadvantages to students with non-academic intellectual model; because NCLB and standardized test based on abstract curriculum (mathematics, physics, etc.) that is hard even for the academic intellectual students. This system causes the high number of schools dropout, it is estimated over 1 million student dropout in United States alone each year1.
Non-academic students will get stamp as a failure from the society and will believing their whole life is stupid and just a waste of time, it refers to a famous
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In United States cases many parents will talk their children to purposefully failing the tests so they can qualify for social security benefits, up to $800 per month per child. And started the “Social Welfare Abuse” trend, moreover the parents know how to milk the system for all it is worth. This trend grows more popular and so does increasing the number of unemployment because of student dropout from college.
The evidence that support this theory is the number of unemployment in United States for about 9.3 million, it is about 6.1% from the whole population2 and it keeps increasing; the common reason of unemployment based on the consensus is that people getting reject from work because of the requirement of their education degree and their status as “dropouts”.
Shortly, toxic culture of education causes a chain reaction of problems in many aspects. Damaging education, annihilate innovation, slaving future generation, social welfare abuse trend are all issues created by the villain’s plan.
After the article gives all information of the “villain’s plan”, the author propose three innovative solutions to solve the problem cause by toxic culture of education. Reform education system, balancing curriculum, and lowering high stakes standardized test in United States

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