Argumentative Essay On Education Reform

Despite nearly three decades of education reform that started with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program in 1965 the United States still has substantial need for reform and change focusing on student achievement. Educational reform across the nation has been littered with dozens of educational reform strategies and goals. Federal, state, and local leaders have attempted educational changes using school vouchers, charters, merit pay, and school choice. However, as the government has continued to increase it’s spending in educational reform impoverished schools have continued to see decreases in student achievement. Fundamental improvements within educational reform has to focus on the large swaths of students who drop out of school.
Urban districts with the largest amounts of impoverished students face the highest dropout rates among students. Large gaps in student math and reading skill knowledge remain common place. Little has been done in modern educational reform to address the issues faced in student dropout rates. As impoverished school systems have shifted to charter based systems the same teachers are still teaching using the same overall knowledge. There have been a number of successful programs that focus on bringing in skilled professionals to change to the educational culture in the school. Overall, the United States educational system has been plagued with large reform, with little change.