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    The Negative Effects of the U.S. Education System “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein once said these words; he believed that everyone posses special abilities, but that it is unfair to judge someone based on a set criteria rather than on their personal skills. But the major population of our nation thinks the United States education system believes in something different. To teach

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    Is the American Education System sufficient to prepare someone for the American dream? The world’s view of the American education system may be skewed, in my opinion. Our colleagues in other lands may have feelings both of superiority and inferiority. Some nations claim a superior system that exceeds any standards that America may hold. Others are practically sneaking people in to the country just to give their young children hope of a “good” education. It is easy to see how confusing it is

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    In the 1970’s Finland was not at the top of the education chain, in fact their education system was doing poorly (NEA). Finland has been changing their education system over the past 35 years to make their education system better. They have changed their education system to become very successful. When looking at the differences between the United States education system and Finland education system has obvious differences between the testing, the paths for the students to take, time management during

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    Miseducation in Common Core Common core cirriculum is a federal program that is pushed by the federal government in order to make standards in the American Education System. Common core damages our children 's education system. Common Core is destroying the American school system by doing the following: pushing standardized tests on students, defunding schools that do not support common core or test too low, and miseducating students on an everday scale. For starters, Common Core is defined as

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    not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn’t been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.” It’s no secret that the current school system used in America is outdated and problematic. With a plethora of obvious issues in need of fixing, there are noticeable differences between America and other countries. Steps needed to improve the system can be implemented. Although

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    During the time of American Revolution, the colony public system only had boys in the institution in the 1600s. It was until the 1700s women whose families were wealthy received formal private education and the lower class were normally limited to whatever they could pick up at home (educationnews.org, 2013). In the 19th century US educators felt that the school system was segregated by age. Educator Horace Man introduced “age grading” for student in Massachusetts in 1848. Its success lead to

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    curriculum. However, the film was not very thorough when describing the American system and it didn’t show any concrete evidence. As a result, I still had questions about why education systems had success, and the lack thereof in the United States. I started my research by looking at articles about America’s education system. I used the keywords “American education system,” “American education spending,” and “Global education rankings.” An article from the CBS News explained that the United States

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    speaks about education, he referred to it as an “imposed ignorance”. Thoughts on Intellectuals and The School is written by world-renowned linguist, Noam Chomsky as a response to the issues of Western education and the impact it has in the lives of the intellectuals and scholars. Chomsky is noting that intellectuals often cared more about attaining power than exposing the lies and truth. With that, he provided examples from the failure of the American Foreign Policy and decision making system to which

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    Continuing issues of poverty stricken the Native American community, however the poor result of the education system being provided upon reservations doesn’t help their way of life to become any better. In the economy of today, a high-quality education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a requirement to success. President Obama has made a goal for education that includes raising the bar for Native American students on reservations. In his first term, he signed an Executive Order

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    doing whatever they want to do. A lot of students despise school, saying that it is torture sitting in a classroom writing on paper. The problem is, American education is broken. But how? We have to look at how the past American education worked, how the system is broken, and how we fix it. How do we look at rural schools and how hey taught education? If kids learned about the schools in the 1900s, some of them would shudder. Schools that were open around the 1950s had a lot of discipline and a lot

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