How can we fix the education in America?

Answer 1

Start by doing something about the corporate media.
More competition, more channels owned by the people.
Establish uniforms (dress) for all the students.
Do not pass a student to the next grade unless he/she passes the examinations.
Rigorous discipline in the classroom with tough enforcement.
Separate schools for male and female students.
Rigorous prosecution of bullying and enforcement.
Teachers bonus for performance.

Answer 2

As a 62 year old, I have been through schools at different times and with different kids. The difference that I see are four fold.
One is that the parents are not involved. They take the easy way out and make it more of a babysitting function. You can tell that they are not involved with the discipline issues in the schools.
Two is that the incentives are gone for most children. We do not see the drive to succeed in any thing that they do but especially in education.
Three is that the teachers are burnt out. There is often a feeling of helplessness. They are fighting the parents, the kids, and the administration. They are tired of the hassle.
Four is that the basics are not emphasized. Reading is the greatest teacher ever. You can tell someone that reads by their imagination and use of words.

Answer 3

There is no easy answer to this question. It's complicated. I can only answer from my personal experience...I went to both public and private schools and public was definitely better. Public school was more well-rounded and I learned much more than private school. To fix the education problem would require time to weed out the teachers who are only there for the money, not the children. It would also require a great deal of money, which unfortunately, we do not have. It seems sending money to the military is more important to our govt than is education in this country at this time.

Answer 4

Simply hold the parent accountable. What?? you ask. If a minor commits a crime, the parent or guardian is most often required to make restitution for any damages. If a parent is to lazy or useless to at least insist thier child take advantage of our educational system than they are commiting a crime. The hardworking americans are going to have to pay for welfare, jails, food stamps, unemployment, debt, bankruptcy, taxes, social security, disability, and the host of other benefits an uneducated person is going to heap on our society. So just because these children aren't commiting the crimes now, doesn't mean they aren't going to cost us a small fortune later. For every student that fails, or drops out, or is absent without permission, we fine the parents what it costs to put that child in jail for one day. I think it's up to $120.00 per day now. You would see some very sore bottoms and classes full of attentive children pretty quick.

Answer 5

Tear down the entire system and start over. Make home schooling the system.

Each child is different and learns at his/her own pace, whether gifted or developmentally disabled.

To teach children in groups is to entirely defeat the purpose of education.

Is education's purpose to train for a job, or to enrich?

Eliminate No Child Left Behind, and eliminate standards. There is no such thing as a 'standard' human being.

We have been stuck with an authoritarian educational system that has almost nothing to do with education, and NOTHING to do with a free, diversified democracy.

Answer 6

One word...parents. The main problem with education today is the lack of parental involvement. You have so called bad schools that can produce great kids why because the parents are involved in their children's education. Check their homework sit down and talk to them about what they are learning and see what you can do to help. Many people are just to wrapped up in themselves to focus on their children. I three boys that will be in the 9th, 6th, and 2nd grade respectively we still sit down every night for dinner together talk and either me or my wife checks homework and ensures that if they are having problems it is taken care of. This does not happen enough it is not the school system that is broke it is the parental system that needs work.

Answer 7

Hire teachers that can teach, teach the ones who want to learn, put the others in a different system. Fire the teacher who fail, and you know who they are just by the way they dress. Get rid of the sports, all sports, and focus on educating the kids. When they have lunch then they can play ball.

Answer 8

The idea theat Government can "fix" anything is ridiculous.
They haven't been able to get you a flu shot for years now.
Close the Department of "Education" and send all of those "educrats" home. When that is done local School districts will be able to cut the number of non teaching positions they are burdened with in half.

Answer 9

We must get rid of schools that have huge numbers of students enrolled in high schools. We must go back to smaller schools with fewer students. The reason Home Schooling is successful is because there are few students per teacher and that teacher is free to encourage and instruct students, rather than follow a set pattern handed down by Administrators.

Our schools are full of class systems, with poorer, less attractive students and students not good at Sports on the fringe, feeling left out and neglected. These students are frequently bullied and can react violently. The teachers should be the cream of the crop, and should be educated in how to treat each student with equal respect. Not everyone is an Einstein, but we are all important in our own way.

Classes should be interesting, with adult projects rather than boring drone sessions laced with monotony. Young people are more capable than our school authorities suspect and, if they drop out of school, it should be a black mark against the teacher, not simply a statistic. In fact, the teachers with a high success rate should earn more money than others.

Answer 10

Any teacher that pass,s a student on anything but ..their grade..isnt worthy to be called a teacher. Pushing political views in the class room to fit the politics of any particular school or institution is wrong...schools should be teaching free speech and and not partisan politics...no wonder there are some many confused Kids in schools these days. i hope this helps.

Answer 11

I agree with the above, allow kids to fail if they aren't doing the work or taking the help teachers try to give them (assuming they are trying to help). I believe we should also stop focusing so much on standardized testing, which I think proves nothing, and focus instead on teaching kids to learn. I think, as with math, that science should include more subjects, especially those important to society such as ecology and natural resources. I feel that high school should be a bit more challenging, and that upper classmen should be challenged in a way that prepares them for college level work, which is important for those going straight into a career as well.