Recently, America has not produced workers who can compete in today’s job market. The reason why young adults have been having trouble competing in the job market can be traced to the United States’ educational system. Many countries like Finland, South Korea, and fourteen others have better educational systems than our own country (Huffington Post). Many of these countries also have longer school years than the United States. It is time to vicissitude our ways. Although every student enjoys his or her summer, the summer should be cut short by a longer school year. The times are changing and so should the length of our school year; besides, a longer school year would allow teachers to not face the stress of cramming units in the last part of
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Due to the summer break, teachers need to review; therefore, inadvertently, adding stress to teachers of cramming information to a reduced time frame as the year progresses. Studies neurologically prove that if the brain does not use the skills it has learned the brain will find no need for the information to clog its memory. Since students’ brains have forgotten a lot of information over the summer, teachers need to review, which creates less time for new information to be taught. The National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) conducted a survey to collect data about how many teachers need to review information that may have been forgotten over the summer. Out of 500 teachers surveyed, 90% of them said they review. 330 of the teachers said that they review three to four weeks in the beginning of the school year; meanwhile, the other 120 teachers that said they review, admitted to reviewing five to six weeks. This is a month or more that is wasted. The state requirements for information to be taught stay the same, but the time is reduced, forcing the teachers to cram the remaining information that is not taught into the last few weeks or less of school. For example, last year in my Algebra Two class my teacher had to review basic algebra concepts that were forgotten. Since some of the students did not remember what they should have, my teacher
Due to the summer break, teachers need to review; therefore, inadvertently, adding stress to teachers of cramming information to a reduced time frame as the year progresses. Studies neurologically prove that if the brain does not use the skills it has learned the brain will find no need for the information to clog its memory. Since students’ brains have forgotten a lot of information over the summer, teachers need to review, which creates less time for new information to be taught. The National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) conducted a survey to collect data about how many teachers need to review information that may have been forgotten over the summer. Out of 500 teachers surveyed, 90% of them said they review. 330 of the teachers said that they review three to four weeks in the beginning of the school year; meanwhile, the other 120 teachers that said they review, admitted to reviewing five to six weeks. This is a month or more that is wasted. The state requirements for information to be taught stay the same, but the time is reduced, forcing the teachers to cram the remaining information that is not taught into the last few weeks or less of school. For example, last year in my Algebra Two class my teacher had to review basic algebra concepts that were forgotten. Since some of the students did not remember what they should have, my teacher