Public education

1. Dropping the Public Administration Emphasis from the MPH degree. 2. PH 660 - Public Health in a Global Setting is being added as a Spring elective to serve as a course for both PH and OT graduate students and in collaboration with an interdisciplinary global health experience. 3. All courses in the emphasis areas of Health Promotion and Epidemiology are being updated to include a hybrid delivery option. This is to accommodate the Traverse City location and student cohort as well as more flexibility for the Grand Rapids cohort in delivery options. 2. Explain how these changes will strengthen and improve the curriculum and/or how these changes align with unit goals. 1. This is a change that will strengthen the emphasis numbers in the…

The public education system needs to be reformed for the present and future students. In the article “Against School,” John Gatto writes about how the public education system currently established has declined in building character for the students in class. The public education system uses cell block style where students take six classes a day for five days a week while going to school for nine months year round. This causes both the teachers and the students to become bored with education. The…

The purpose of public education should be to give students a free and equal education. While I do believe that public education provides an abundant education for some, I also believe it hinders and holds back others. Public education gives students a free and unequal education. Inner-city students attend public schools where they lack books and engaged teachers. They are expected to learn without the necessary resources. Inner-city students don’t have the funds they need to gain an equal…

chances to do well on tests. The public education system failing is a result of low funds from the government, overcrowding, poverty, and parents not caring. Low funding from the government means that clubs or other activities that keep kids out of trouble will be cut in order to have a math or biology teacher. These situations are pushing parents to be more in favor of private schools. There are many reasons the public education system has started to fail. The largest reason begins with the…

have their religious values compromised by any nationalized form of religious doctrine. Although the separation between the two is defined, as a society we often run into many issues pertaining to variance between the religious values of individuals and the actions of the state. A great example o conflict of interest amongst religion and state practices can be seen through the public education system. The public school system has a goal of educating kids free from religious influence; however…

The public education in the United States has become one of the largest and most magnetic changing quality control problems in our modern community of people. One of the biggest problems is a lack of money available for public education in the United States. Education is an issue that touches everyone’s lives in one way or another. Whether you are a parent, student, teacher, taxpayer, or employee, the effects of education on humankind can be seen every day. For this reason, public schools are a…

Education, although a right in the United States, undeniably stratifies opportunities that can either help or hinder students from cultivating their full potential. The core of social justice starts in the classroom, providing the same resources and quality of education to all students regardless of the street they grew up on, what’s in their parents’ pockets, or the amount of melanin in their skin. When thinking about my life in public education, I recall Ms. Ackerman’s 1st grade class where…

article “Public Education is Failing,” from Opposing Viewpoints in Context, suggests our education system is failing to teach our children the basic subjects of reading, writing, and mathematics. DeWeese is the president of a public-policy organization that promotes less government involvement and more free enterprise. According to DeWeese, the “root problem” with our education system is, “. . . the federal programs and the education bureaucracy that run them.” He also suggests that the…

is something that is implemented by the State through the taxation of individuals income is more important over an excellent educational structure. But this seems odd, that Nozick would refute a society that offers public education to individuals. Public education is the one of the productive areas that is to thank when talking about wealth. The right to education is an essential right that needs to be fostered by the State because not everyone has the luxury to pay for it. Education is such an…

In her book, Another Kind of Public Education, Patricia Hill Collins describes a startling personal incident, which reveals the prevalent inequities still present in the American school system. The author attended Philadelphia High School for Girls, where she was one of few African Americans in her class. As a result of her minority status, the author transformed into a quiet girl and felt uncomfortable in her classes. One day, Patricia’s teacher invites her to deliver a Flag Speech. Patricia…