Special education in the United States

The NCLB Act of (2001) reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) which based on four principles that provide a framework through which families, educators, and communities can work together to improve teaching and learning. Schools are demanding to create programs or activities to encourage parents to be more involved. Conant (2013) implies anytime that parents spend with their child even if it is completing homework or attend a parent meeting contribute to their…

Monolingual vs. Bilingual Education and Public Schools The United States is currently experiencing large influxes of immigrants in the public education system. Since the majority of these immigrant children speak a language other than English, schools are faced with the burden of educating them in content, language, and culture, with few effective resources. The Supreme Court places immigrant children in the public education system with their ruling that all persons, regardless of documentation,…

the public school system, and others may fall through the cracks. Since the introduction of “standardizing” education, our nation’s public schools are rife with politics, and politics has no place in the classroom. Indeed, reigning in our “standardized” public education system will benefit both students and teachers within the state of Florida. Florida is one of the nation’s largest states that supports standardized testing, which was used more regularly after the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)…

It is quite obvious that the quality of an American education has fallen. As of 2014, American students were ranked barely above average in the world on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA exam, and have been jumped by several countries in the past decade with far fewer economic resources. (Resmovits, 2014) The major educational issues within the United States have been scrutinized by academic scholars such as Jonathon Kozol, John Hattie and the authors of Too Many Children…

American high school. You begin to notice two distinctive groups of students. The first group of predominantly minority students is generally unmotivated in the classroom and does not have the academic skills necessary to prepare them for higher education, despite a handful of driven individuals. Many of them lack consistent transportation to school, do not have a safe space in which to do homework, and work full time jobs. Conversely, the second group is composed primarily of white students and…

Whenever the American education system questions its amount of spending, the same two things are put on the chopping block and their importance is questioned. The first being physical education, tends to be saved, as the growing obesity rate scares many. The other, music education and the fine arts, are hit with tons of black-lash and often either get their budget cut or destroyed all together. Unlike other subjects, music education is not seen as a necessity and rather an extracurricular…

No Child Left Behind According to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) pamphlet, “the No Child Left Behind Act gives states and cities more control and more flexibility to use resources where they are needed most. Principals and administrators would spend less time filling out forms and more time helping a child learn” (Ten Facts Everyone Should Know about the NCLB). This claim shows how promising the NCLB was supposed to be. The government had NCLB pamphlets issued to parents and teachers to let…

“Testing of students in the United States is now [approximately] 150 years old” (Alcocer, Paulina. "History of Standardized Testing in the United States."). Rigorous testing has become engrained into the American educational system. I disagree with the countless challenging tests subjected upon the modern student because exams such as the SAT, ACT, Iowa Basics, PSAT/NMSQT are weighted too heavily, are not accurate or full representations of a student, and correlative studies have displayed that…

changing. With recent policies passed by the government, public schooling had restrictions placed on their teaching methods and many school programs that do not correlate with the state tests, for example, performing arts programs, are being discontinued. The focus of a well-rounded education was now minimized to target state standardized testing requirements. If parents do not see public schools fit to teach their child, what should they do? The answer was charter schools. A charter school is…

expand. One of the most influential people in black education was Booker T. Washington. Washington would teach himself the alphabet even though it was strictly frowned upon that a black person got an education. He would spend his nights studying with a teacher from a local black school. In 1870, he started to do housework for an owner of a coal mine. The owner’s wife actually told Washington to continue his studying and imprint the importance of education in him. He would eventually go to…