American Education Reform

The American Education System is considered to be ranked 36th in the world wide ranks of education systems as of 2013 (Coleman). This ranking indicates that there is a major problem with the American Education System. Though many people believe that reform must come in the form of larger budgets this is not the case, money actually does not have a direct link with student performance (Robinson). The reform for the American Education System needs to come in the form of teachers with more will and want to help, focusing on the true needs of students and shifting the focus from testing to real learning. From the start, teachers have had one of the biggest impacts on a student’s education experience. Teachers have the ability to build up or destroy …show more content…
During the research of this paper, a survey was conducted to find out what students really thought of the current education system. The results showed that students were clearly not satisfied. One of the questions asked students to rank their level of satisfaction with teachers, work load and school environment. Out of twenty responses only one reached a positive level of satisfaction with any of the above listed items. Education has shifted to be more convenient for the adults in the world rather than being for the benefit for the student. In one of the survey responses to the question, “How can education be changed for the better,” a responder wrote, “Teachers should be teaching children things they will actually need instead of teaching them to pass a test.” Students are aware that they aren’t getting the education they deserve and this is a problem that desperately needs to be solved sooner rather than later. There are many different ideas of how the education system can be reformed to start really focusing on the needs of the students. One of them is creating a smaller teacher to student ratio so that teachers can really focus on making learning personal for the students. Another idea is to create an education system where students are given more freedom in choosing how they learn, whether it be through computers, books or art. Whichever way of reform is used, the goal needs to be putting the student’s …show more content…
Often it comes up that America falls short in education when compared internationally by test scores. The solution that has been implemented for this problem is to add more testing and curb the education to teach just for the tests. However it is a bit of a misconception that America falls behind on these tests; an article written by William H. Smith and Nathan A. Burroughs