Education In America Essay
Modern public education is perceived by the common American as a philosophy used to gauge the intellects of students and the way in which they are taught, solely by their potential and their drive for education. This is discerned to be done unbiasedly and equitably and purely for the betterment of the forthcoming future of the individual and the people in which they affect in their career. Along with sparking interest in the student to forge a lifelong bond with their future career. However, the public education system is gravely flawed in America and has fallen behind in comparison to other countries. The education system in America and accommodates a disadvantaged education for poverty-stricken schools, and an outstanding unemployment of
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college students after graduation. The American education system: high school and college, has become increasingly arduous and albeit impossible to acquire a stable financial flow with an undergraduate degree alone. Public schooling is also greatly hindering the minds of our students through standardization and the effort not only to create a singular intelligence, but to homogenize it.
Society has continued the belief that children who access a public schooling and receive a college diploma will be instantly gratified with a future and ability to succeed. However, the synonymity between high school diploma and success are outstandingly feign. According to epi.org, unemployment of 2016 college graduates: there are 89,000 graduates who are now searching for a job who have graduated the prior year. There are also 201,600 underemployed students who have acquired a diploma and are working at a job that do not require any form of college education. Keep in mind these are only students who have not only gone through high school, but they have also gone through college to acquire their associates and undergrad. Students who have only received a high school diploma alone and entered the job market are significantly higher with 572,800 unemployed and 1,078,400 underemployed and still working minimum wage jobs in 2016. Keep in mind that these numbers are roughly 13.2 million students, according to NCES.gov. Students who have invested an average of 80,000 dollars, again according to NCES.gov, and 4 years of their life that they could have invested doing something else, instead have little to nothing to show for the amount of money and effort they had invested.
Although some might argue that it is only a small few that are suffering such an “unlikely” predicament and that it is still an efficient use of one’s efforts to acquire a college education. According to the Census ACS survey, the average yearly income for an American family is about $55,000. With college eating into about 30% of a family; assuming one doesn’t take on the credit-destroying bank loans that are so generously offered or working for scholarships that mind you, also take time and effort that could be invested elsewhere. Wouldn't you agree that, with such a huge investment of one’s resources, you would at least get a more assured future than being “unlucky” for every 1 in 17? And even once a student earns their bachelor’s degree, which would take another whopping 4 years of a student and average $80,000. The average salary of a bachelor’s degree is a mere $49,000.
Furthermore, America is also behind in many aspects compared to other countries in terms of education, we lack the same values that many leading countries in education seem to uphold successfully.
Matthew lynch writes in his article “3 Issues that are Hurting the American Educational System” that students not only spend a significant month less than leading countries such as Korea in a school year. We also spend less time a day in class compared to the leading countries that are ranked for best education system and testing scores. “It is not uncommon for Korean high school students to spend 16 hours each school day in classrooms. That is more than twice the amount of time that American students spend at school...Korean students consistently rank at the top of developed nations when it comes to subjects like math and science, vastly outpacing U.S. students. By contrast, in England school-aged children spend 6.5 to 7 hours at school – the equivalent of American students (but, remember, they spend more days in the classroom).” Obviously, we are significantly behind in terms of education, we have allowed our youths to take the back burner as other countries do quite the opposite. Not only do we not take the time that we spend receiving education seriously. According to ####, we do not look at teachers and professors in the same regard to lawyers and doctors, which continents that greatly outrank us in teaching do. globalcitizen.org does not even include the US in their survey of
top ten ranked nations in education, along with many others.
college students after graduation. The American education system: high school and college, has become increasingly arduous and albeit impossible to acquire a stable financial flow with an undergraduate degree alone. Public schooling is also greatly hindering the minds of our students through standardization and the effort not only to create a singular intelligence, but to homogenize it.
Society has continued the belief that children who access a public schooling and receive a college diploma will be instantly gratified with a future and ability to succeed. However, the synonymity between high school diploma and success are outstandingly feign. According to epi.org, unemployment of 2016 college graduates: there are 89,000 graduates who are now searching for a job who have graduated the prior year. There are also 201,600 underemployed students who have acquired a diploma and are working at a job that do not require any form of college education. Keep in mind these are only students who have not only gone through high school, but they have also gone through college to acquire their associates and undergrad. Students who have only received a high school diploma alone and entered the job market are significantly higher with 572,800 unemployed and 1,078,400 underemployed and still working minimum wage jobs in 2016. Keep in mind that these numbers are roughly 13.2 million students, according to NCES.gov. Students who have invested an average of 80,000 dollars, again according to NCES.gov, and 4 years of their life that they could have invested doing something else, instead have little to nothing to show for the amount of money and effort they had invested.
Although some might argue that it is only a small few that are suffering such an “unlikely” predicament and that it is still an efficient use of one’s efforts to acquire a college education. According to the Census ACS survey, the average yearly income for an American family is about $55,000. With college eating into about 30% of a family; assuming one doesn’t take on the credit-destroying bank loans that are so generously offered or working for scholarships that mind you, also take time and effort that could be invested elsewhere. Wouldn't you agree that, with such a huge investment of one’s resources, you would at least get a more assured future than being “unlucky” for every 1 in 17? And even once a student earns their bachelor’s degree, which would take another whopping 4 years of a student and average $80,000. The average salary of a bachelor’s degree is a mere $49,000.
Furthermore, America is also behind in many aspects compared to other countries in terms of education, we lack the same values that many leading countries in education seem to uphold successfully.
Matthew lynch writes in his article “3 Issues that are Hurting the American Educational System” that students not only spend a significant month less than leading countries such as Korea in a school year. We also spend less time a day in class compared to the leading countries that are ranked for best education system and testing scores. “It is not uncommon for Korean high school students to spend 16 hours each school day in classrooms. That is more than twice the amount of time that American students spend at school...Korean students consistently rank at the top of developed nations when it comes to subjects like math and science, vastly outpacing U.S. students. By contrast, in England school-aged children spend 6.5 to 7 hours at school – the equivalent of American students (but, remember, they spend more days in the classroom).” Obviously, we are significantly behind in terms of education, we have allowed our youths to take the back burner as other countries do quite the opposite. Not only do we not take the time that we spend receiving education seriously. According to ####, we do not look at teachers and professors in the same regard to lawyers and doctors, which continents that greatly outrank us in teaching do. globalcitizen.org does not even include the US in their survey of
top ten ranked nations in education, along with many others.