CURRENT ISSUES IN AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

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Current issues in American education system
12th grade
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An education can open doors to opportunities that would have never been possible were it not for the education and preparation that one received while in school. With the fluctuating economy and uncertain times, it is more important than ever for our nation’s children to receive the proper education and training that will allow them to acquire a good job and produce the revenue needed to live.
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Attrition Rate
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“Their departure through what researchers call the “revolving door” that’s spinning ever faster—the commission estimates teacher attrition has grown by 50 percent over the past 15 years—costs roughly $7 billion a year, as districts and states recruit, hire, and try to retain new teachers”. Kopkowski (2008)
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Jalongo and Heider (2006)
“With so many qualified teachers leaving the profession, many students are experiencing substandard education in a considerable number of districts”.
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It is our job to provide students with a high standard of education, and it is alarming that the attrition rate of teachers is undermining our number one goal.
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Cochran and Reese (2007)
teacher attrition rates are the highest in middle school and high school teachers
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Homecoming
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Yearbook
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Lack of Parental Involvement
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Many of us probably remember our parents being very involved with our education, whether they were part of the PTA or just asked about your grades and homework every day when you got home.
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Educators at all school levels know that successful students—at all ability levels—have families who stay informed and involved in their children’s education.
Epstein (2008)
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It is our responsibility to try to involve parents who seem hesitant and reluctant to be a part of their child’s education. This is one way that we can start to try to solve this problem.
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she has found when schools leverage parents’ relationships with each other; they can build active networks of parents. By increasing opportunities for parents to be involved, they not only help out those families, but they also help bond the different families in the community
Long (2007) states in her research that
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Student information systems (SIS).Bird (2006)
They allow districts to open new lines of communication, providing parents with Internet access anytime to information such as attendance, grades, evaluations, and behavior logs
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Due to work schedules, it is often hard for parents to come in for conferences, but it is so nice that they can just get on-line and see how their child is doing. The last aspect of parental involvement that we as teachers need to help out with is what kind of parental involvement we are actually wanting. It is important that we let parents know that their opinions are important and are valued, but that it is still our classroom.
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Only when we truly get through to parents and make them realize how important they are to their child’s success in acquiring an education will we really see the resulting positive changes. In a world where there is so much to influence and drag down our students, we need our parents, more than ever, to keep our students on track. Also, whether they will admit it or not, most students will appreciate the fact that their parents want to be involved in their education.
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Reading Epidemic
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Boling and Evans (2008) report
More than eight million american students cannot read or comprehend what they read even at a basic level. They go on to say that more than seven thousand students drop out of school each day because they lack the literacy skills needed to be successful.
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It is bad enough that so many students cannot read and comprehend on grade level, but the fact that it is leading to so many dropouts is truly disturbing. It is understandable, however. Watching students struggle through basic words that they should have mastered years ago is indeed a hard thing to experience. Oftentimes, teachers get fooled into thinking that students who can read aloud well also comprehend everything that they read, and this is simply not the case.
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Ediger (2008) talks about the importance of parental input relative to reading, saying that parents may be able to suggest what particular skills with which their child needs help. They may have noticed something at home while listening to their child read that will help the teacher diagnose the problem and begin to help the child.
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Not all teaching programs educate future teachers in the fundamentals of reading instruction. Many teachers, through no fault of their own, do not know what to look for as warning signs that their students are not reading on level. It is important that all content areas and grade levels educate their teachers on these aspects of reading. As discussed earlier, reading interventions are a collaborative process, and all teachers need to have the necessary tools.
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