Problems in Our Education System Essay

case of Engel v. Vitale. This case involved state officials of the Broad of Education in the Union Free School District in New York who composed a prayer which was given to the principal to be read in each of the classrooms in the presence of the school teacher at the beginning of the school day. It read “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country”. This was to be a part of the “Statement on Moral and…

Churches were slow to take up the problem of social issues caused by the influx of new immigrants. Two of the first preachers to address this problem were Walter Rausenbush, pastor to the German Baptist Church in new York City in 1886 and Washington Gladden pastor of the Congregational Church in Columbus Ohio in 1882. Education of immigrants was taken very lightly but in 1889 Jane Adams set up Hull School in Chicago where it became the first settlement house. Here, new immigrants were…

Many people have different views of happiness, some think they need a new car to be happy, where others would be happy just getting a car that runs. So where do some of these differences in happiness come from? Pushes in the education system and the want to look the best on social media can affect how and what we view we need to pursue in order to be happy. During my young school years, I was told that a four-year college degree would be necessary in order to have a well-paying job. This…

Those pursuing higher education within the United States are facing financial obstacles and unfair opportunity, directly in relation to those living within poverty. Whether or not our upcoming generations will be given the same, if not a greater opportunity towards higher education, is dependent on the decision pertaining towards educational reform. An individuals pursuit towards higher education needs to be addressed when the affordability spectrum dilutes the fairness of equal opportunity: all…

Does the Modern School System Hinder Creativity? The primary focus of this talk was whether the school system of today hurt the creativity in children. He started the talk about the uncertainty of the future and how the school system is supposed to prepare children for it. Ken Robinson believes creativity is as important as literacy and also believes that children are inherently creative and inventive. Whether everyone is truly creative or not as children is not certain to me, but I believe in…

In discussion of the prison system of the U.S., one of the many controversial issues is the size of the prison population. According to statistics, although the U.S. has 5 percent of the world population, it includes 20 percent of its’ prisoners. On one hand, some people argue that there should be more people jailed. On the other hand, some contend that the prison population should be reduced. There are many factors to consider rather than simply jailing more people or not. These factors include…

Higher education has been in the new a lot recently. Steadily increasing college tuition rates have been sending many parents and potential college graduates into a quagmire. Student debt for many people are dragging them down for years or even decades after completing college degrees. This is a clear and obvious problem affecting our country, but how do we fix this? A radical yet popular opinion is to make colleges free and debtless. This idea has existed for years, but the current presidential…

Racism and sexism is still very much prevalent in today society. The problem with racism and sexism is that it keeps minorities and women from achieving social mobility and limit their opportunities. Racism is not as overt as it once was, it is now seen in our criminal justice system. In chapter four of the book, it discusses two forms a racism overt racism and institutionalized racism. Racism and sexism leads to discrimination, which involves an act of treating someone a certain way because of…

One of the most predominant advantages to education is its promotion of equal opportunity. Bloom confirms this atmosphere when he writes, “[Great thinkers] had authority not based on power, money, or family, but on natural gifts that properly compel respect”(Bloom 6). Privilege based on wealth holds no power behind the walls of a university, but Michaels proposes that inequality lies at the gates of universities. “What’s keeping [the poor] out of elite universities is not their inability to pay…

wealthy and poor or the African Americans and the Europeans. The problem within that statement is not based entirely on which race is poorer or less privileged than the other but problems within cities and government to cause segregations between the rich and the poor. Cities are havens for the poor to reside as they having cheaper housing in some areas more so than the country side and suburban areas. But the problems of education within poor cities, the poor staying poor has more to do with…