What A Failure: Aurora Public Schools
Focus on something for a moment. Imagine a child in elementary school school,and their teachers talk of the importance of education, to have their homework on time, to pay attention in class, study hard, maintain punctuality, and know that all of this will pay off one day. Now stop! Get rid of that notion to which everything is going to be okay, because suddenly they find out that those values programmed into them from day one, are a fallacy. The homework has nothing to do with what they will eventually need to focus on in middle and high school. The course work isn 't catered specifically to the audience in their school or even in their classroom, no it 's handed out all the same, to all the rest of …show more content…
Curriculum, student and faculty environment, funding and an emphasis on success, are major roles that play into a thriving system. For those that would argue there are other elements which affect the success or failure of a system, such as the state of a family 's financial situation would be right to argue this point. Generally speaking, the perception that students from higher income families succeed academically more than lower income families is accepted and sometimes true. And this makes sense to an extent. More money generally allows more opportunity for those that do not have such allowances. Yet this is a common fallacy, ,because in an article published by the Atlantic on October 25,2013, entitled, “Do American Schools Need to Change? Depends What You Compare Them To.”, written by Wendy Kopp, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Teach For All,a global network of independent non profit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries. Kopp explains both sides of the issues in American education using authors Diane Ravitch, a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist for Time, The Atlantic and other magazines,as focal points to address her position on how to move forward. On one hand, you have Diane Ravitch, who believes that the main problem within education right now is simply lack of government support for low income families. She believes that the same model the U.S. has been using is for the past 50 years is sufficient and that we should be more focused on poverty than anything else. Kobb cites Ravitch’s reasoning for this by saying, “Following Ravitch, with her attachment to a model that has become obsolete, would mean its best days are
Focus on something for a moment. Imagine a child in elementary school school,and their teachers talk of the importance of education, to have their homework on time, to pay attention in class, study hard, maintain punctuality, and know that all of this will pay off one day. Now stop! Get rid of that notion to which everything is going to be okay, because suddenly they find out that those values programmed into them from day one, are a fallacy. The homework has nothing to do with what they will eventually need to focus on in middle and high school. The course work isn 't catered specifically to the audience in their school or even in their classroom, no it 's handed out all the same, to all the rest of …show more content…
Curriculum, student and faculty environment, funding and an emphasis on success, are major roles that play into a thriving system. For those that would argue there are other elements which affect the success or failure of a system, such as the state of a family 's financial situation would be right to argue this point. Generally speaking, the perception that students from higher income families succeed academically more than lower income families is accepted and sometimes true. And this makes sense to an extent. More money generally allows more opportunity for those that do not have such allowances. Yet this is a common fallacy, ,because in an article published by the Atlantic on October 25,2013, entitled, “Do American Schools Need to Change? Depends What You Compare Them To.”, written by Wendy Kopp, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Teach For All,a global network of independent non profit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries. Kopp explains both sides of the issues in American education using authors Diane Ravitch, a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University 's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist for Time, The Atlantic and other magazines,as focal points to address her position on how to move forward. On one hand, you have Diane Ravitch, who believes that the main problem within education right now is simply lack of government support for low income families. She believes that the same model the U.S. has been using is for the past 50 years is sufficient and that we should be more focused on poverty than anything else. Kobb cites Ravitch’s reasoning for this by saying, “Following Ravitch, with her attachment to a model that has become obsolete, would mean its best days are