Public Education Reform
Although a free public education provides tremendous benefits to its recipients, it is starting to fail students because they are ill-equipped to compete well with other students internationally, it is failing to create proper citizens needed to run the nation, and it is suffering due to heavy government involvement.
Intro: America is facing an ominous problem regarding education. Over the past few decades the standard for American public education has steadily declined. There are many who do not recognize or refuse to recognize that there is an evident need for a reform. Martin Gross, the author of the Conspiracy of Ignorance, writes that the reality is parents are not witnessing their children become properly educated. In reality, they are …show more content…
Although this is a marvelous ambition, actual reforms in schools rarely reach the goals they are supposed to achieve. Public Education reforms are a preferred way to improve society. During the 1840s Horace Mann, a politician and education reformer, showed his audience that society will quickly downfall and their salvation was public education. In 1983, in response to a presidential commision The National Commission on Excellence in Education wrote A Nation at Risk. This report stated that the public school system was failing. Test scores were falling, millions were illiterate and teachers themselves were not being taught enough. This report brought little or no change to the status quo. Millennial thinking on public education favors a solution to social and economic problems. At the beginning of the twentieth century, educational elites viewed themselves as social engineers who could perfect the nation by directing society. Though many attempts have been made, no real reform has been seen. President Lyndon B. Johnson said “the answer to all our national problems comes down to a single word: education” (Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban …show more content…
As a result of these children not making it to college, they will become criminals, fighting in wars, and working endlessly in a low-paying job
Public schools are failing to produce highly educated individuals necessary for the jobs the economy depends on such as primary care doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers, etc.
The Federal Government is shooting itself in the foot(Albada, Michael).
With each college degree earned, the average income also increases. Thus, this creates more high paying contributors for taxes.
The annual per capita GDP growth would increase if students were more proficient in math (Hanushek, Eric).
If the number of proficient students equalled Canada’s or South Korea’s the annual growth rate would increase by 0.9% to 1.3% . After an 80 year period, that is the equivalent of roughly $75 trillion
Refutation
Public Schools
Intro: America is facing an ominous problem regarding education. Over the past few decades the standard for American public education has steadily declined. There are many who do not recognize or refuse to recognize that there is an evident need for a reform. Martin Gross, the author of the Conspiracy of Ignorance, writes that the reality is parents are not witnessing their children become properly educated. In reality, they are …show more content…
Although this is a marvelous ambition, actual reforms in schools rarely reach the goals they are supposed to achieve. Public Education reforms are a preferred way to improve society. During the 1840s Horace Mann, a politician and education reformer, showed his audience that society will quickly downfall and their salvation was public education. In 1983, in response to a presidential commision The National Commission on Excellence in Education wrote A Nation at Risk. This report stated that the public school system was failing. Test scores were falling, millions were illiterate and teachers themselves were not being taught enough. This report brought little or no change to the status quo. Millennial thinking on public education favors a solution to social and economic problems. At the beginning of the twentieth century, educational elites viewed themselves as social engineers who could perfect the nation by directing society. Though many attempts have been made, no real reform has been seen. President Lyndon B. Johnson said “the answer to all our national problems comes down to a single word: education” (Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban …show more content…
As a result of these children not making it to college, they will become criminals, fighting in wars, and working endlessly in a low-paying job
Public schools are failing to produce highly educated individuals necessary for the jobs the economy depends on such as primary care doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers, etc.
The Federal Government is shooting itself in the foot(Albada, Michael).
With each college degree earned, the average income also increases. Thus, this creates more high paying contributors for taxes.
The annual per capita GDP growth would increase if students were more proficient in math (Hanushek, Eric).
If the number of proficient students equalled Canada’s or South Korea’s the annual growth rate would increase by 0.9% to 1.3% . After an 80 year period, that is the equivalent of roughly $75 trillion
Refutation
Public Schools