Education

The EDUCATION system in the US is having problems.  In a poll asking what grade people would give the US education system, the grade was a C!  That is not good at all and something needs to be done so that C becomes an A.  There are a number of problems that make the education system receive a C.  The problems are low academic achievement, high dropout rates, questionable teaching, and school violence.  The schools that usually need the most help are in bad school districts, and have low funding, which makes it hard to get well qualified teachers to work there. There has been some policy work done but still not enough, for example the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.  Education is not easily adapted for all learning styles, which leads to the child having a hard time in school.

In the book Understanding Social Problems education is covered in chapter 8, Problems in Education. 

I chose this topic because I am interested in education, since I am in still in college I can relate to this topic well. 

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The link above will take you to an article called "The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention." The 

article talks about the hiring and selecting process of quality teachers.  It is interesting because teachers 

want the best school and the school wants the best teacher, which leaves the smaller schools unable to 

get the qualified teachers. This is a problem with the US education system. 

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The link above will take you to an article called "A Comparative Study Between UK and US: The 

Student Satisfaction in Higher Education and its Influential Factors."  The article compares the US and 

UK education system. The US is the largest education system followed by UK. It is interesting to see 

what the UK is doing and how we are different from them. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhmLxII-Xfc

In this video clip above titled "A Nation in Crisis: America's Education System is Broken" it discusses how the US education system had fallen behind. 

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-structure-us.html

This link above will take you to the US Department of Education website on the section that talks about 

the eduction structure. At the website there are many tabs to explore to see what it taking place in US 

education. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2013/02/15/how-should-we-rebuild-the-u-s-education-system/

This link above will take you to Forbes website on information related to education.  The website will 

allow you to explore why the US education system should be rebuilt and restructured.

  

"Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years."

Janet Napolitano