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The Problem with Education It is no secret that America has trouble with their education system. Here in America, a decent education can seemingly be achieved only by having a decent economic background. If you don’t have a good economic background, then there is no way you can continue your education past high school unless your grades are really good and you get a scholarship to get into a good four year college. This is discouraging because a lot of these kids want to further their education…

In the same article, “Top Test Scores from Shanghai Stun Educators,” it says, “K–12 Education, predicts that Chinese cities will top the PISA charts for the next several decades”. The standardized testing system is continuing to work for the chinese education and they aren't planning on stopping either. When the students graduate and leave their school they are prepared for the workforce…

School is a place for learning where every student should be given equal opportunity to accomplish their academic goals and succeed later in life. Without external pressures and test scores there would be more funding for schools, students would enjoy learning more, and spend more time on learning at student 's pace and their individual needs. Students feel that, they should succeed on standardized tests to succeed in the future at school, but this is a major misconception. Recently numerous…

The general argument made by Annie Murphy Paul in her work, Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn, is that students and teachers should merely focusing on teaching more cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies instead of focusing on content. More specifically, Paul argues that teachers should focus on teaching students how to learn. She writes,” Teaching students how to learn is important as teaching them content.”(P4). In this article, Paul is suggesting that teaching…

About 40 years ago, their school system got transformed as a key propellant of the country’s economic recovery plan. Finland had no idea how successful it would be until 2000, when the results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), revealed that the Finnish youth were the best readers in the world. Then in 2003, they were the best in math and in 2006 they were the first out of 57 countries in science (Hancock). The students couldn’t have done it on their own. The…

Currently the United States is close to going at war with the terrorist group Isis. There are many ways in containing this group, along with many different strategies.In the article “Presidential Candidates Criticize Obamas Islamc State Strategy, but Theirs Sound Similar” by Christi Par sons and David Lauter discusses the problems of Isis and why terrorism is ruining the United States and the world. During a news conference, President Obama discussed his strategic plans with dealing with the…

Galileo was an astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who played a big role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. And also created an improved telescope to study the stars. One of his achievements was discovering four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter and the phases of Venus. In 1609 he built his first telescope improving the Dutch telescope, and made other observations about the moon’s surface other stars in the Milky Way. The four new moons were called Callisto, Europa,…

Policy Outcomes As states move forward with education reforms, some provisions of No Child Left Behind, the most current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act stand in the way of their progress. Although NCLB was started for national student achievement, unintended consequences of NCLB have reinforced the wrong behaviors in attempting to strengthen public education. NCLB has created incentives for states to lower their standards, focusing on absolute scores, rather than…

Galilei was a famous physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and philosopher from a very important part of the renaissance called the scientific revolution. He was born on the 15th of February in Pisa, Italy. When he was young his father sent him to school to study medicine at the university of Pisa, but quickly got bored and decided to study mathematics instead. He later became a professor at the university, and went on to discover a lot more about astronomy. What were his discovery’s? …

In the novel, Stargirl, many of the main characters struggled with conformity. Leo the narrator of the novel, Stargirl, continually tried to get stargirl to conform with the rest of the students, showing a struggle with conformity, “We went into pisa pizza, we shared a pepperoni pizza with anchovies, how can you eat them? Nobody likes anchovies, she took them off and put them in her water glass.” Midway through the novel Stargirl begins to change and really gives in to conformity. Stargirl is…