Driver's education

The United States has made standardized testing a major concern across the country. Teachers are now required to prepare students for tests such as the ACT, SAT, KCCT, etc. Students are taught how to take these tests rather than being taught important curriculum that could help them in their futures. Most people don’t see the damage done when students and teachers are preparing for these tests. Students are not becoming more knowledgeable, through these tests, they are learning how to read…

School uniforms have always been a hot topic for everyone, teachers, students and parents that they often have different view points on. Because the issue directly affects the safety of students from all ages, nobody can make a choice solely on personal opinion, facts have to be used. According to a recent study conducted by Raymond Fench in long beach, California, “after a two year uniform policy in k-8, assault and battery in district schools decreased by 34%, possession of drugs went down,…

what pushes them to become more than what society expects, but they will have a long journey ahead of them just because they do not come from the right social economic background. Student from different social classes receive a varying quality of education because schools use standardized test scores to direct a students’ educational pathway, curriculum and how students are taught, are being based off of the schools social economic area, and students are being perceived and treated differently…

Boredom, the new classroom epidemic Motivation is the motor that leads students to pursuit their personal desires to achieve goals. However, students are struggling with insufficient interest on class material. So, who is to blame? Students? According to a study called “The Silent Epidemic,” funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, motivation deficiency is the number one reason students are dropping out of school. Classes are not engaging students to participate in the learning process.…

Academic advising is an essential part to a college student’s life. Without it, most students would not know which direction to go with their respected academic fields or which classes to take in order to achieve the associate’s degree here at the College of Southern Maryland. But there is a problem with academic advising not only here at the Leonardtown Campus, but the La Plata and Prince Frederick campus’ as well. The majority of the time when a student goes in to see the academic advisor,…

With the help of the works of three already successful educators, I will construct the environment that I wish to create when I am in the role of educator myself. The first step to establishing a healthy learning environment is to create a strong student-teacher bond. Caring about a student 's well-being inclines them to work harder towards their final grades. Thunder-McGuire focuses on the understanding of one student and creates a bond. Temple Grandin taught me more about the importance of…

find a better salary. Money affects students in many ways such as students parts time job, schools don’t have enough supplies, teachers don’t get paid enough and therefore they don’t try to teach, parents don’t have enough money to provide good education for their children Students’ parts time what can be negative. “28% of high schools students work part time for about twenty hours a week or less.”() Students are working a lot and don’t have a time…

Each state and school now has more fair and balanced educational equality. Before a uniform education system was established, many states did not have the same quality education as some more populous and wealthy states. For example, WalletHub compared the quality of education in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia by analyzing 13 key metrics that range from student-teacher ratios to standardized-test scores to dropout rates…

Through this assignment, I had the opportunity to interview Sandy Brier, a FACS teacher in Iowa. Sandy studied FACS at NDSU for her first two years of college, but then transferred and received her degree at Valley City in Elementary Education in 1982. She subbed for 20 years so she could be a stay-at-home mom. When she was ready to have full time employment again, she was offered an open position teaching FACS, but she did not a have a FACS degree. So she ended up teaching while receiving her…

AltSchool, seems like the utopia of education with no standardized testing, little homework, curriculum picked by the students, and small class sizes allowing for personal attention from teachers. However, with current systems for education in the United States, it is impossible for the model to be implement on a large scale. While the school says that economic background is of no matter but rather merit is the determining factor for their students, with scholarships available to students, it…