Problems in Our Education System Essay

improving educational systems could eliminate the SES gap in achievement/attainment: I think we should be pessimistic in thinking that an improvement in educational systems would really help eliminate the SES gap in achievement and attainment. There are an abundance of other factors involved that contribute to the gap that do not directly involve the school, including the summer learning gap and home life differences between low and higher classes. Improving the educational systems would…

social justice issue that I chose to write about is that of the education gap. There are huge discrepancies in the learning experiences among students who are supposed to be getting “equal” education. By this, I mean to say that depending on where an individual resides, the schooling provided might be completely unbalanced. I have seen this firsthand because I have gone to a number of different schools. One of the biggest problems surrounding this issue is that it continually perpetuates a…

Americans feel there is value in a college education, so much so, that even Americans without a college degree believe that post high school education is important. The most recent Gallup poll indicates that 25% of all college graduates in the U.S. fail to thrive in their overall careers (Busteed). Students and parents making their college decision should not be swayed solely on the prestige of the high costs institutions, but rather the quality of education students will receive. This poll also…

Coates writes about his transition from childhood to adulthood. He discusses learning about the truths and laws for being a black body. He questions the American dream, government, and history. He explains that many problems exist because of social constructs such as police brutality, education, and living conditions for the black body. Black bodies are systematically oppressed. (Thesis) Police brutality plunders the black body. (Point) (Illustration A, Summary) Coates argues that the police…

Author Paulo Freire has a serious opinion and problem with how education is being taught. In Freire’s essay Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he mostly talks about and compares two specific concepts of teaching that he has witnessed. Those concepts are the banking and problem-posing. Sometimes while he explains the difference between the two the author can be a bit confusing and contradictive but for the most part you get the idea the he favors the problem-posing concept. Freire does a good job of…

western ontologies.(cite author) An example of contextualisation in relation to mathematics education for Australian Indigenous students. They provide an example of a Yolngu community school in Yirrkala, in northern Australia, successfully using Western mathematics and Yolngu mathematics alongside each other. In the Garma mathematics class, Indigenous worldviews and student knowledge of Indigenous kinship systems and patterns were connected with Western mathematical notions; the practice…

Domenech, Sherman, and Brown (2016) begin by introducing the possibility of transforming education. They give examples of personalization in many areas of our everyday life. Department stores have personal shoppers, hotels stress the importance of personalized service, and health care/treatment plans tailor to the specific needs of the patient. Our world has become personalized in many ways and yet our 21st century classroom has changed very little since the Industrial Revolution. According…

Getting an education is not a piece of cake because it needs efforts. We also have to think critically by using the power of our intelligence. In the speech, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” the speaker Ken Robinson recognize as an international leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources in education argues at the TED conference in 2006 that we are educating our kids without creativity because schools and universities consider the academic abilities more important.…

now. After the result of the 2016 election, it feels as though half of our country feels completely betrayed while the other half is overcome with joy. This is not how the country should be. The polarization between the two main parties, Republican and Democrat, has reached a point that is becoming concerning for the near future. According to the Pew Research Center, which conducted a year-long study on the polarization of our nation, “Republicans and Democrats are further apart ideologically…

My role as Geriatric Psychiatrist, providing care in the general hospital, also enables me to see other aspects of our health care system. Recently, our hospital announced the closing of Geriatric Assessment Clinic due to it’s financial return or lack there of. This is the place where we could refer the Geriatric patients with complex issues that required the team of different disciplines to figure out how to best care for those particular patients. There is no incentive to provide care for the…