Criticism... The Happening Issues With Us Education

Education in The United States is generally governed by the public sector with financial influence from federal, state and local bodies. There are modern issues in educational reform of US which is based on course curriculum, funding and control. The most challenging effect on education and funding controversy is because of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA). The whole disagreement have been brought in to light from different angles like :

• Curriculum issues
• Use of English in the class room.
• Accomplishment
• Conceptualization
• Sex education
• Financial support
• Control

Before stepping into the mode of debate happening on educational platform let us chalk out the structure of educational systematic growth and hierarchy. Generally there are seven levels or grades of learning. These are Pre-schools (till age of 5 years), Elementary schools (till age of 11 years), Middle schools (till age of 14 years) , High schools (till age of 18 years), post secondary education (College or University , professional, vocational, technical education), Adult education ( Doctoral studies, Post doctoral studies and research).

Coming back to the educational debates the issues are:

Curriculum issues:

It varies widely from place to place. Few private schools had incorporated mandatory religious classes to attend which became the apple of discord as not standardized by group from No Child Left Behind Act. Astronomy and Geography these two subjects are most under taught in the schools.

Use of English in the class room:

English being the official language of 95% people from US. But around 10 million children aged between 5 to 17 do not speak in English at their home. Unfortunately around 1.3 million children do not speak good English or do not know how to speak at all. District schools are trying to treat English as a Second language (ESL).

Accomplishment:

There is a big confusion between high schools teachers and college faculties in terms of preparedness of the students for uplift. 90% of high school teachers highly believe that school leaving students are enough capable of being admitted into post secondary level where as college teachers believe that they are not well equipped to write at the college level. Education of students with special needs do require personalized help from home tutors.

Conceptualization:

There is an ongoing debate between scientists, average citizens and many religious, family value groups. The first group emphasizes on teaching of Evolution in the curriculum where as the second one foresees creationism as an alternate view point.

Sex Education:

Many schools are attempting to avoid study of sex education as far as possible. But parents have a different view. 80% of parents on a survey of 2004 had voted sex education in school which made their task easier while talking to their children on sexual issues.

Financial support:

The highly controversial funding issues stems out from No Child Left Behind Act, property taxes, Parents complain on unjustified output from schools, public schools funding by local taxes or state taxes.

Control:

In the current scenario state and national governments have control sharing mechanism in education sector. States have more power and control authority. But No Child Left Behind Act had asserted on central control in a decentralized way.

Home schooling had been growing up at high speed because of moral or religious reason. This is the non conventional approach that comprises of 3% of all children in US. California Home tutors are good advocates in US.

By: Gomes

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Andy Gomes is a socialist and tutor from New Jersey. He is also a good private math tutor associated with MyPrivateTutor. US an online tuition agency.