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Date : February 23rd, 2010Category : UncategorizedAuthor : Editor2 Comments
What do you guys think is the best way to improve our public education system? What is your experience? What is being done now? If you can also provide any references I can look into & bring myself up to speed that would be great. Thanks!
From what I’ve seen and heard, Asia’s system seems to be working well to train people in highly technical fields. Should we consider shaping our education system more like Asia’s?
From my understanding and what my university friends have told me about their experiences… Japan, China and Korea all have more intensive primary education systems. Up until the end of “middle school”, there’s school 5 days a week and cram school on saturdays, sometimes even night school during the week where students have a structured review of the subjects covered during the day. Club activities (sports and hobbies) take place after school like here – except there are more of them. There are no elective classes and the teachers come to your home rooms – thus groups of students will stick together throughout the year. I found out that all students are taught and tested with the SAME MATERIAL even if they had failed a test previously and continue to be pushed along together. (No track system like here) Also, the top ranking students are posted after each test… which can become very competitive.
I know Japan’s public education system ends after their equivalent of middle school (8th grade?) and afterwards is private. Maybe this is why the quality is that much better? You have to apply and pay just like we do for college here, except there’s a rigorous placement test that dictates where you will go. In China you have to choose your favorite schools wisely, because if you can’t get into your top choice in the first teir, you will only be considered for the second teir next. After “high school” there is again a college placement test… which is so ridiculously competetitive that students spend every waking moment that they are not at school studying for it in the year preceding the test. I’m not so sure this is good however, especially for anyone’s mental health. So….
CONS:
- Insane testing…
PROS:
- Asia’s education systems have more time devoted to studying (I know I didn’t study before college, but most of the material was too easy to merit studying – grades were based mostly on just doing the work, any level of work)
- More material is covered at a quicker pace (international students transferring to American high schools are invariably at least a year or two ahead from my experience)
- Lack of a track system that I feel dooms people to limiting their options
- Not lowering standards to meet the lowest performing student (the high school exit exam was the biggest joke of a test I’ve ever encountered)
This is just my impression (please, politely correct my errors) and the direction I think we should go. I know it’s not possible over night, but if performance means anything, I think we should be looking abroad for inspiration on how to improve our public education system. A better basic education means better options for more people, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be college. I’ve never gone to school anywhere besides California, so I don’t know any other experience (enlighten me?). However, my friend’s sister recently transferred high schools from LA to New Orleans, and says that at her new school (a prep school too) they are at least a year behind where she was in LA – a scary thought, seeing how little my HS taught their students.
I am definitely not an expert on this subject and I hope nothing I say offends anyone! I’m just interested in your knowledge & opinions. I went through the California public education system within the last 10 years, most of the international students transfered immediately into honors and AP classes, and less than 10% of my graduating class even considered a 4-year college as an option, let alone ended up there. At my university, I’m in a science field and my friends who are doing the best academically got some education internationally (mostly Asia). Most of this is hearsay, but it definitely informs my opinion of the American public school education… and it looks pretty grim.
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