How can we improve our Public Education System ???

Answer 1

Have parents learn to start working with their children from birth. Stop using the TV as a babysitter, have parents involved in the child's education. Parents are the children's first teacher.
I work with preschoolers, and I know from first hand experience the difference it makes when parents are involved.

Answer 2

A question I often ponder and wish I had a simple answer for.

In the end, two things play a major role in improving the system.

(A) Money is one and (B) quality teachers are another.

Sometimes, most times (a) is the reason there is no (b) but I have seen with my own eyes in NYC the teachers get paid decent money yet sound and behave as if the Board of Ed picked them up off a street corner and offered them a job.

The history taught in schools is INCORRECT. English grammar is almost non-existent.

Contractions are being taught in first grade!! Come On! What the F is up with that?!!!

Children are just learning how to read and write and are continuously improving their language schools YET you want to teach them that can't is short for cannot.

I don't think so.

We need quality people in that bureaucracy called Boards of Education or School Boards or whatever it is called in your town.

I see all to often that when I was in school, which was not THAT long ago, teaching was not just a profession, but a passion.

Nowadays, it is just a job that anyone with degree can get.

Well, that is the mini version of my rant on public education in this country.

Answer 3

The most convent and cost effective method to improve the public education system is to privatize it into a operating unit. That way performance by both the educators and those being educated may be judged by the end results.

Answer 4

First of all, money won't solve anything. The spending on the GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM has been at it's highest ever. More then the war for those who doesn't have a clue. How we can improve the so failing school system is by first getting rid of government control. Next we need a vouchers system so that the school can compete and parents have a choice of schools in sending their kids to. Studies show that schools competing with each other improves test scores and G.P.As. Sending your kids to the government to learn is the biggest threats to the future or our country. History proves that more and more government controlling the school system(the free market) makes government stronger and the people weaker and ignorant(that's how they like it, "the modeled citizen").

Answer 5

We've been throwing more and more money at the problem the last few decades, with little result.

I think we should follow the advice of Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and improve the public school system by using a voucher program to bring competition into the system. This will simultaneously save money AND providing an incentive to improve teaching methods.

Answer 6

The whole system needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from the ground up. That is the only way to truly fix the problems. In the short term teachers need to be better paid and given definite positions without any chance of being fired. Also the states might try being a little more soft on the grading the schools need the money period.

Answer 7

1. Get rid of property taxes as a primary funding device and equalize funding of schools.
2. Increase standards for teachers while dramatically increasing their salaries, paid for by this new funding scheme
3. Somehow deal with white flight, as Chicago and other cities have done with the magnet school program
4. Some would say have "school choice" aka vouchers, charter schools etc.
5. Give more opportunities for practical education to supplement the heretofore dominant focus on a liberal education (high school)
6. Some would say make school year round
7. Most important: find a way to make schools less socio-economically segregated.

Answer 8

Throwing money at the problem won't help, get rid of the NEA! While there are good teachers, the majority are looking for the easy way out, It's a sweet gig ; 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, all the holidays plus "teacher work days" 4 months off a year, and the wing nutz don't even have to teach, they can't talk about how they feel...sweet!!!

Answer 9

well privitization is the best for the Education of America I agree.
However to fix the Public education system the nation would need to understand economics a little better. Destroy 90% of welfare and other needless gov't expenses (yes forigen wars of a non-defense nature) and focus on the true basics.
-Defense of the Nation from Forigen Invasion. (Executive/military)
-Defense of persons from each other (Conrgess)
-Using the Gov't as an intermediary between disputes. (Judicial)

With little other spending.
Perhaps getting rid of the extra departments, in the order in which they were most recently created?

If we can get Pre FDR in government structure , then we will be doing pretty good.

Answer 10

Bush tried to halp that, but many people haven't thanked him yet, for the "No Child Left Behind Act", I was really glad when he did that because I went to a really ghetto poor Chicagao Public school, and compared to the subs I was stupid. We should stop letting people into this country because the bigger the population the more kids we have to teach, bigger class rooms, more schools thus more money. I think a lot of college should be free!

Answer 11

Ban the NEA.The largest teachers union in the country.Focus on education and accomplishment instead of politically correct crap,expel students that get pregnant or are gang members,ban cell phones and off campus time,pay teachers on a merit basis,the better their students test in their subject the better they are paid,give vouchers so parents can shop for better schools,and never let the teachers decide what will be taught,that should be set by community not the federal government or teachers unions.