Derek's question is not the most refined but he's on to something. Standing between schools and progress in their improvement are many unresolved problems and questions. Examination of them is almost always an adult prerogative. But students are the ones who are most immediately affected by what happens in schools. Their voices deserve to be heard.
Read this, "School reform-issues, problems" at http://teacherweb.com/NY/Cunningham/Frederick/apt9.aspx
answer these questions
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
2. Secretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China." What does that statement suggest about what the secretary thinks is a major purpose of the schools? Do you agree? Why or why not?
3. Consider the points the president made about school improvement. How important do you think each one is? Why? Can you envision difficulties in making these improvements?
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ReplyDeleteI think that” Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay" is the most important because money is/isn’t everything. Money doesn’t necessarily make the world go around, but now I think that’s a push for all the teachers. To encourage or kind of hold the teachers in place with such rewards.
ReplyDelete"I think schools should be open six, seven days a week, 11, 12 months a year. You're competing for jobs with kids from India and China”.” Go ahead and boo me," he challenged the middle and high school students. But instead of boos, the Associated Press reported, he got "bored stares." Quoted from Secretary Arne Duncan. As you can see some people want school to be everyday all day, but most people aren't up for it. To tell you the truth I don’t agree with him. This is because we do need weekends and days off from school to refresh our minds because our brains can only hold so much in so little time.
-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers.
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay.
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day.
-Providing every American with a quality higher education.
Considering all the points made in this speech I can envision allot of difficulties including
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay.
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day, because during this economic state I doubt every teacher in the U.S.A will get outstanding pay and if school is extended the absence level will rise and before you now it no one will come to school.
For Mr. Rose’s comment the benefits for school is growing up to have a promising future and to have a good career. It is helpful for everyone because without education no one would get a job and nothing we plan would come out. A rich person could be able to go to school weather they want to or not because maybe they don’t want to be homeschooled or maybe they just want to fit in with others. Either way if your rich or poor you have the choice to go to school.
"I think schools should be open six, seven days a week, 11, 12 months a year. You're competing for jobs with kids from India and China." This is what U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told about 400 Denver public school students recently. "Go ahead and boo me," he challenged the middle and high school students. But instead of boos, the Associated Press reported, he got "bored stares." This quote is the one that will promote student education because you’re competing with India and China for jobs. Their education is better or some say more advanced. Secretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China." And he thinks this is major. I don’t agree because what would they do with these extra days? Will they just make these school days easier for them to understand whatever grade there in? I disagree because you will only increase the number of days that you should learn something. I think that instead of increase days and all, the students from 4-12 should take test the year before different test for subjects to see that what type of class they will take. I meant that they shouldn’t be anymore of students to be in the same class instead everyone in different class for example a student is in advanced social studies, below regular English and in regular science because he passed with a high grade on last year social studies which had covered all the topics and failed English and regular science because he got near or average grade. Then take the test during the middle of the year and again at the end. So which ever failing class should have teachers that will help them get to regular and the other teacher will get him/her to advanced class of that subject.
ReplyDelete• Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers
• Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
• Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day
These in the president’s speeches aren’t very helpful. I say that because encouraging better standards isn’t helpful and reforming school calendar and length of school day will only tell a student what is going to happen. Chances of passing will increase not that much giving teacher better paying.
• Providing every American with a quality higher education
This is what I say is better from the rest because higher education shall help a student more than the other three because higher education will help a student receive a better job. I can see that these improvements will be hard and very little will it help. My idea will be harder but it will help a lot more students even though you will need to make more advanced class every year.
There are actually no benefits of going to school that you can't get at home. You can learn, practice, and work in an everyday situation AT HOME. School is a place where you can have that learning experience, but you have to get up early for that and have to work more than double what you can be doing at home, so why not learn at home?
ReplyDeleteRich people go to school because they probably don't know what to do with their money. Homeschooling is a way to keep parents rich, and kids not having to wake up at seven in the morning to go to school.
1. The one of the efforts that seems best to me to promote student education is the effort about lengthening school weeks and years. That is because all students are serious about their weekends and vacations. Most of the students will do whatever it takes for their rest days.
ReplyDelete2. Secretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China." This statement suggests that the secretary thinks it’s a major purpose of the schools. That is because he probably wants the US to have a stronger economy than the kids in India or China. I do not agree with his statement because why do we have to compete with India or China? It’s better to be your own country, not look at everyone else’s.
3. The president’s statement is important because as I said in weblog #1 it is important to go to school. I can envision the difficulties of in making these improvements. First of all some kids just refuse to go to school because “they have better things to do”. I understand it is hard to make these improvements, but we have to.
I think that the effort about encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers is important, because by doing that the children’s level of quality or excellence could increase and the school days will be the same and for the teachers they might have a merit pay.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China", the statement suggests that he wants the school to open six, seven days a week 11, 12 months a year, that is what the secretary thinks is a major purpose of the schools. I don’t agree with him, because we need the weekends and the vacations, because if the children work with not enough rest the students will start to fail, children needs rest to do good in school and advance their grades.
The points the president made about the school improvement are:
• Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers
• Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
• Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day
• Providing every American with a quality higher education
I think the middle points are not important, because nothing will happen if a teacher gets merit pay and extending the length of school will tell the children when to go to school and they won’t do good without any rest. I say encouraging better standards and assessments and providing every American with a quality higher are important because the students will have higher education. I can envision difficulties in making these improvements for providing every American with a quality higher education, because what if there are immigrants who are in school, will they have higher education? Also, won’t it cost money, if not how would all the Americans have a higher education?
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ReplyDelete1.Out of all these efforts, rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is the best to promote student “education”. The economy is down, and people are struggling to make it by. If your boss told you that if you stepped up and did a better job he would pay you more, wouldn’t you do your best? With more teachers striving to be the best, and trying to teach their students more, education rates will definitely prosper.
ReplyDelete2.For Secretary Duncan to say we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year simply because, “you’re competing for jobs with kids in India and China.” says that the purpose of school to him is so that we can learn and get good jobs and make a lot of money, which the state will take back in taxes. People go to school to learn and be educated. Though it is true that you can’t get a good job without an education, the point of school is for us to expand our knowledge in math, reading, history, science, and other important subjects; not to become rich off our education. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan for all these reasons. If we are competing for jobs with kids in India and China, we’ll just have to work harder and want to learn outside of the classroom, because that’s what a good student is: someone who goes the extra mile, because they want, not have, to.
3. Obama presented many points on the subject of school improvement. In these were:
-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers.
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay.
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day.
-Providing every American with a quality higher education.
All of these points are very important, but providing every American with a quality higher education is the main goal we’re working for, aka the most important. Every American deserves the chance to learn, and a quality higher education will magnify that. Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day is also important. With students being in the classroom more hours, more days out of the year, well, I can’t imagine that not having a positive affect. Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers is considerable. If you set higher standards for both teachers and students, one of them, if not both, will succeed in their efforts. Though before I has tagged ‘rewarding teachers with merit pay’ the most important, if schools are open longer, the teachers are guaranteed to get paid more, (for putting extra hours in) so rewarding with merit pay would be fairly useless if everyone is getting a greater paycheck. I can’t envision difficulties in making these improvements.
1. Raising the standards is probably the best thing to do to promote student education. I know as a student that we always want to meet the standards. The standards should go up only a little bit each year.
ReplyDelete2. The statement suggests for a longer school day and/or year. I don’t agree. Just because we go to school a lot more doesn’t mean that we are going to be smarter. Kids have to do their responsibilities in order to succeed.
3. It is important to make higher standards. Teachers and students always want to at lest reach the standards. I don’t see a difficulty in making the improvement. If teachers got rewards for improving their students, teachers would work harder. I don’t see a problem with that either. Schools shouldn’t increase the length of school. What about camps? What about vacations? People may not go to school if they give an extra day a week or cancel summer vacation.
The effort about encouraging better standards for both students and teachers because the children’s level of excellences would be increased and the school days length will stay the same and for teachers they might get a merit pay. Secretary Arne Duncan thinks that lengthening the school days and school years because “you are competing for your jobs with kids from India and China.” He thinks the school should be open six of seven days a week and eleven of twelve months a year. In my opinion that would not be good because kids need rest or else they’ll start to fail. Our minds can only hold so much information at one time. The point the president made about the school improvements are:
ReplyDelete-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school days
In my opinion encouraging students and teachers for better standards and assessments is the most important one up there. I see how Rewarding teachers that have don’t outstanding teaching to give them a merit pay because they have helped kids in getting better grades but I don’t see how lengthening the school days will help. That is because if we don’t have a goodnights rest all we might do is fall asleep or daydream during class and we’ll get in trouble but even if we don’t get caught you it’ll still be your lost because you won’t be learning as much if you were awake and ready to work.
1. I think that the idea of teacher merit pay is the best idea because even though teachers don't do it for the money, it's good to reward hardworking teachers with merit pay because they deserve it. They will continue to work hard to give us the education we need to succeed, and we will get better test grades and report card grades.
ReplyDelete2. Secretary Duncan is pushing that the government should extend school hours and school days, to compete with the kids in China and India(they have long school hours). The secretary is therefore trying to say that we must get even with China so we can become a better country by following in their footsteps. I STRONGLY disagree with the idea of lengthening school because I know there are many ways to become a better country other than becoming like another country. Plus, kids are doing good enough and I don't see the need to lengthen hours and weeks.
3. The president made 4 points at his speech in March. The first one was encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers. This point is important because if teachers are teaching us stuff we've known since 1st or 2nd grade all the time, it won't benefit us because we already know this. Also, if we get tests that have the same old stuff from the last test, or the test before that, that isn't beneficial to anyone. I think this is very important. The next point he made was awarding outstanding teachers with merit pay. Like I said in question 1, great teachers deserve merit pay. Even though the don't do it for the money, they do it to work with kids because they like to work with kids, it's a good idea. The next point is reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day. I really don't think that this idea is that important. I think of it as detrimental(the opposite of beneficial) to students. Without days to rest you'll be miserable and you won't work as well as you should. We all need a break, no matter how smart we are. The next point he made was providing everyone with a quality education. This is also very important because you don't want to be taught almost nothing every day, get taught very little social studies, but a whole lot of English, you want to learn something, and be taught in a safe environment where you know the teachers care about you.
1.The article about school reform mentions several ways to improve student education. I believe that rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is the best way to do this. Some teachers are trying harder than others to provide their students with a better understanding of each and every subject. Rewarding hard work with merit pay might encourage the teachers who aren't doing their best to try harder. The economy isn't that great these days and most people are worried about losing their jobs or making ends meet. So if there's a golden opportunity for you to earn more money, then why wouldn't you take it? Hopefully it will inspire all teachers to do better which in turn benefits all of the students that they teach.
ReplyDelete2.Secretary Duncan talks about lengthening the school day and year in order to compete for jobs with children from India and China. It implies that he thinks that our educational system is somehow not as good as theirs. It also suggests that he believes that a good education is directly related to the ability to get a job. While I agree with Secretary Duncan that education is an important factor in succeeding, I disagree with the way he wants to accomplish it. I disagree because I believe that both teachers and students need a break at some point in the year. I don't think lengthening the amount of time we spend in school automatically means that the quality of the education is better. Quality is more important than quantity. Besides, I would like to have summers off.
3.The most important improvement that President Obama emphasizes, in my opinion, is rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay. I think this will inspire all teachers to try harder. The difficulty might come in establishing the goals the teachers have to meet since children learn at different paces. The second most important improvement is providing every American with a quality higher education. It's pretty obvious that a teacher with more training will be more effective in the classroom. The difficulty is that becoming highly qualified costs money, which most people these days don't have. So getting the necessary classes may be hard. Even though better standards and assessments would be helpful, the problem might be enforcing them. As for reforming the school calender, I don't think that's a good idea at all. I think that the amount of time we spend in school now in addition to all of the homework we get is enough time spent on schoolwork. There has to be some balance between work and play.
Every student should meet their standards. The only way to that is if all the teachers help the students exceed in their standard. Secretary Arne Duncan wants to make school days longer. He wants to make school six days a week. I think it isn’t really a good idea because if kids were to do this, then kids will think its torture because they won’t get the rest they need and the time to study.
ReplyDeleteWhat was made for was:
-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students.
-Rewarding outstanding and hard-working teachers with merit pay.
-Reform the school’s calendar and the length of every school day.
“You’re competing for jobs with kids in India and China” means that the kids in India and China are smarter than us and Secretary Arne Duncan wants us to be smarter than them so we can get the better jobs. The points that the president makes isn’t important because encouraging kids probably won’t do anything and reforming the school calendar will only tell the student what’s going on during the year. I think we should do everything on our own pace so we can understand everything more clearly. My idea is important because if we learn on a fast pace it wouldn’t make you understand everything clearly but your mind will be all over the place. On the other hand, if we learn on a normal pace your brain slowly takes the information. It shouldn’t be hard to make changes to make students understand things more.
I would say the best effort that is best to promote students education is to extend the school year and school weeks. My reasons of this answer is with the more time in our school weeks and the year we can get more lessons of our classes we could all fit in, in the regular school year. Students of the school would also extend their learning skills by an enormous amount, due to the extension of the school year.
ReplyDeleteI would think the secretary’s major purpose is to avoid inevitable teacher layoffs and cuts in programs that would otherwise result from sharply reduced state tax receipts in a severe recession. School is not for socializing to our friends fool around or any of those things that don’t include school, class work, or studying. I would agree about this major purpose because school is not a hang out all thought some children think that it is. School in my perspective is a building of dedicated people willing to teach the young minds of the district. I also think that school is not a thought to take advantage of. You have to go if you want to get into a good college, and of course a good job when you are older.
I would say each point that our presidents made would be a rather hard to improve on. I say this because children do not want to go to school. They think it’s a waste of their time. Like in web log number 1 President Obama said “children have to attend school” We just can’t go and not go as we please. That’s not our choice to make. So I would say in my opinion it would be rather hard to make these improvements with all these children not going to school.
To promote students education, I don’t think making school 6 or 7 days a week, for 11 or 12 months will help us out. Yes we might be able to learn more, but we need to rest our brains. If all we do is learn and learn and learn 24/7,our brain will start to hurt and we will be overwhelmed with all of this. What is the most important is the merit pay for the teachers. This is because if they were offered more money if they tried harder. I think they would. This would help the kids because the teachers will keep hounding the students to do their best and get their work done. The way to get the teacher to stop hounding you, you would do the work and try your best.
ReplyDeleteI think that the secretary thinks that the purpose of school is to have a great job and become rich. I disagree with this because it’s not what school really is for. Yes it would be nice to be rich and yes we do need good jobs and a lot of money, but we really just need enough money to pay all of our bills and not have to worry about losing our house or any of the other things we love. We don’t need billions of dollars. We just need enough to make it through.
All of the points that the president made (below) are very important even though I don’t agree with 1 of them.
-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teacher.
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day
-Providing every American with a quality higher education
I don’t agree about the extending school even though we can learn more. So if that does happen we will fit in more things to learn but like I stated before we might get overwhelmed. So it will be difficult to change, but e might get used to if after a while. I think that encouraging better assessments for us is also important. If the teachers are teaching us these new standards, they will again hound us to do the work and try our best. They are all important and will be difficult.
1. Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers seems like the best effort to promote “student” education because if the teacher is encouraged to do better, then the teacher encourages and challenges the class to better and higher standards. This would improve schools because the students will get used to working and learning at higher standards and this will show academic improvement and the graduation rates will rise. Students’ study skills and listening skills will also improve when better standards are encouraged. This way is also convenient because there isn’t a lot of money involved in this effort.
ReplyDelete2. Secretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China." This statement suggests that the secretary thinks that getting a good education and getting a good job are a major purpose of the schools. I don’t agree with Secretary Duncan’s statement because if we lengthen the school day and the school year, students will get tired and stressed out and will drop out of school and not be able to get a good education.
3. The most important improvement that Barack Obama stressed during his speech on America’s schools was encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers. This is the best improvement because it will encourage teachers to do a better job and encourage children to pay attention and study hard. The difficulty with this is that some people may be stubborn and not care about getting a good education. The second most important improvement is providing every American with a quality higher education. Every American deserves a good education in order to be successful and be a part in the world. The difficulty is that it would take a lot of money to train teachers to become highly qualified. Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is a good idea, but the problem is that it could take up too much money and the teachers could get greedy. Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day is not a very good idea because then it would make it more frustrating for students and they would never get a day off to relax, but instead will have to worry to make sure everything is done properly and neatly.
This article about school reforms mentions way to change and improve kid's education. I believe that rewarding outstanding teachers with merit is the best thing to do to get the best result for the improvement and goal. Some teachers are putting their patience and heart in to teach kids and students, but there is also some teachers who aren't thinking this way. Giving them merit in exchange for their heart to teach kids and their patience might be able to convince them to do so. During this time, the economy isn't so great and many people are trying to earn more money to support their family and many other reasons. If I were you, I wouldn't miss this chance to do that. I hope that this will encourage other teachers to do better and inspire the students they are teaching and give the kids a chance to have a bright future.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan mentions about extending school days in order to do better competing with the kids that came from India and China. He thinks that our level of education is somehow not able to meet theirs. He also mentions that he thinks that our education is mostly linked to our future jobs. I do agree that the link of education and future job is important, but at the same time, I disagree the way h thinks about extending our school days. Even if going to school does help kids learn more, but kids still needed rest to make the quality of their work good. Imagine that you go to school every day of the week. I don't think any kid can get neither good grades nor good health if they try to do this. On the other hand, if kids get rest and their time to study, I think they would do even better without the school time extension. Not mentioning about other kids, even I need my rest to keep up the good quality of my work I do in school.
In my opinion, the most important improvement that President Obama emphasizes is "Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay." Just like I mentioned before, merit pay is a great opportunity for many teachers. It might be difficult for teachers to teach 200 students a day and to teach kids with different levels of knowledge, but that is one of the requirements for the awards. Another important improvement is giving Americans good educations. Although, if a person gets exceeds standards, there is always a cost to get knowledge. Money is something many people don’t have, so even if you get good grades, you couldn’t get the necessary classes. My personal opinion on the calendar reforming idea is ridiculous. The total amount of time kids go to school now is enough. We also get homework to study at home. Every person that lives in this earth must have rest. No normal human can survive with the pressure and stress without rest.
1. The effort that was most helpful to promote the students education is providing every American with a quality higher education. This is the most important because if more challenging work was put into daily school learning then the excellence of students learning will increase. The work will only be more difficult which is good because it encourages students to work harder and it helps them learn more. The school days will be the same and teachers will have their original salary and the standards will mostly be the same but somewhere along the way they might change due to the expectations of the work.
ReplyDelete2. For Secretary Duncan to say we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year simply because, “you’re competing for jobs with kids in India and China.” says that the purpose of school to him is that school is something that can’t pass for one day. School is a gift that gives you an opportunity to be educated, from school we can make money and earn a living, earn a job. Education is really to be smart and not to get wealthy out of it. If school’s purpose was to get rich everyone would go to school, but even if it is to become a smarter person (which it really is) everyone has to go to school, without school your future is lost. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan’s speech because we don’t need extra days of school, everything is perfect the way it is, all we need to do is to “win jobs” is to work and try harder in school, and outside of school.
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In a March 10 speech on improving America's schools, President Obama emphasized. He considered points about school improvement. These points were:
• Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers
• Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
• Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day
• Providing every American with a quality higher education
Each point is extremely important in school improvement. Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers will give both either the student or teacher success in their efforts. This point isn’t what is considered for a school but can happen. Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is a very weak point because the economy is very low and schools cannot afford enough money to pay teacher more than their original salary, if this happens teachers that weren’t so outstanding would be laid off. This point can happen if a school is high in money and can afford a higher salary for teachers. Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day is optional but might not be the most pleasing action to perform for students. Lengthening the school day will give students more education, and opportunity for learning, but like I stated it might not give a pleasant reaction from students. The main point is providing every American with a quality higher education because with more work and learning opportunities in one normal school day of school is a perfect schedule. More work without lengthening school days.
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Derek Rose says “What are the other Benefits of going to school? Are they helpful to people? What if someone is rich and going to school? Why are they even going?” The benefits of going to school are that you get a high education. Even rich people have to go to school. They need education to continue the family’s riches. The effort that promotes student “education” is providing Americans with high quality education. If the education is low budget less kids will learn. The government should put more effort to high quality education so all the children will learn.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan thinks they should lengthen the school day and year. He says schools should be open six, seven days a week and eleven, twelve months a year. He says we have to compete with India and China for jobs. The secretary thinks the major purpose of schools is to compete for jobs with other countries. I think school is about children learning in a safe environment and growing up to have almost a guaranteed job from their education. I do not agree with what Secretary Duncan says about more school. If children work hard in school all week they disserve at least two days rest. Children also need a summer to relax and enjoy the nice weather.
The points the president made about school improvement are not the most important improvements we could make except for providing Americans with high quality education We need high quality education so every single child can learn. Rewarding teachers with merit pay is important, but it is not a big issue in the United States. Unless teachers go on strike it is not the first priority for education. Reforming the school calendar and length is unnecessary because children need some time to rest. Encouraging better standard and assessments for students and teachers is very important because encouragement helps the students learn and teachers teach. There are no difficulties that can stop these improvements. We can do what we put are minds to.
1.) The best method to promote better student education is to lengthen school time and reduce summer vacation to one month. If the day to day school time is increase it will provide a stronger student who will progress in learning more and becoming a better person.
ReplyDelete2.) In answer to question number two the statement shows that the secretary Duncan believes that the school is only to get jobs—which is fine but if that is the only reason for school people will suffer. Progress comes from being able to use your education to make changes and that takes more education and time. If you hate school you wont learn anything.
3.) President Obama made several point on school improvement.
-He wants better assessment tools for students and teachers.
-He wants to reward outstanding teachers with merit pay.
-He is interested in reconstructing the school calendars and the length of the school days.
-He wants to provide quality higher education to all Americans.
The problem with his ideas is that we do not have an increase in the budget to give an increase in pay to the teachers, aides, security guards, school aids so that they can work longer hours and longer hours for the school to stay open (meaning electricity).
The student of today of today and the future mist change their mind about longer school day and shorter summer vacations.
It is very hard for change for change to happen when all we want is to stay the same. To provide quality education to all Americans would mean more schools, small classes, and more books. We on the planet do not have more space. We just have human being using space with limited resources (like books, paper, trees, and money).
1.To best promote student education you must take responsibility for your education. That means you can’t cut classes to hang out with your friends because you think its cool. Make the choice to do your homework and study for test. You need to be respectful to your teachers and fellow classmates and you must not let your friends put you under peer pressure. Don’t let them entice you to smoke or do drugs. You have to do the right thing and say NO!
ReplyDelete2.Secretary Dunkin thinks the major purpose of school is for children to receive an excellent education so they can get a fantastic career. Sine 2003 New York City students have needed to improve their academic performance. He expects the high school students to not be discharged from their school because they are bringing down the school’s average. He wants our grades, test scores to excel and if we finish high school he expects us to get into a fine college. I agree with extending the school days and the year. Eventually we are going to need a break. I agree because students need to have higher-standards for themselves rather than just working at CVS or Pathmark. We need to be encouraged to do better and be better.
3. Each point about school improvement is important and they each hold a different value. Some involves students improving and some involve teachers improving. A difficulty in encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers is that everyone may not listen. A difficulty in rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is they may not teach the children from their heart. They will just be doing it for the money. The difficulty I find in reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day is that the students will never get a break from school. We’ll never have any time to relax and enjoy the world outside of school. If its playing a sport, taking a trip, etc. What about summer and holidays? Everyone deserves a break. I find no difficulty in providing every American with a higher education because everyone deserves an opportunity to succeed. Everyone should have the same opportunity to achieve a bright future.
I think that encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers is the best effort to promote student “education”. I think so because if we have better standards and assessments then we would have good teachers that can teach us different things. Also if our standards and tests aren’t as good as they are supposed to be we might not learn the certain things we are supposed to be learning. If we have better standards and assessments for the teacher and us kids we will know where we are in learning/teaching and try to do better if we aren’t doing well already.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan thought that we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "we’re competing for jobs with kids in India and China." The secretary thinks that a major purpose in school is to study hard and be great. He thinks that we have to do good because when we grow up and it’s time to get a job if we didn’t pay attention in class and didn’t do well in class we probably won’t get that job we wanted and another person from another country might get it because they did well and listened to the teacher in class. I think that he is right and that we will be competing for jobs with kids from china or India later on but right now I don’t think that we should lengthen the school days because right now we have 5 days of school each week when we don’t have holidays. I think that is enough. If we listen more and study some more when we get home we will understand what is going on in class more. We also need time on the weekends to finish our homework, relax a little after the week, and spend time with our family.
As I already said I thought that encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers was the best effort to promote student “education”. I thought that rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay was the second-best effort because outstanding teachers sometimes do deserve merit pay because they are teaching us in an excellent way and we’re understanding it and doing excellent on every test. This might be difficult though because the school or the board of education might not be able to afford this merit pay for our outstanding teachers. I thought that providing every American with a quality higher education was the third most important because it is important that we have a good learning environment and that we have good books to study from. I don’t know if this is possible because again the school or the board of education might not have enough money for this. Also I didn’t know if this was for Americans only because some kids might not be citizens of America. I thought that reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day was the least best point because I don’t think that it is absolutely necessary for us to be going to school more then 5 days a week unless it is tutoring because if we make time to study hard at home more and pay attention in class more it might not be necessary to have us go to school six or seven days of school if we do this. I also think this might be difficult, because some people don’t like this idea and will make it hard for the government to do so.
Of all the efforts, the one that seems to be the best in promoting student education is providing every American with a quality education. Not every school is the best, or receives an “A”. Every American deserves a high quality education, regardless of their race, religion, or income. Without education, we cannot get a job that we want, or get a job at all. We all know that not every student has the privilege of a high quality education in public school. Even private school doesn’t guarantee a good education. Every school in America, public or private, should have high educational standards.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and school year because “you’re competing for jobs with kids in India and China.” I strongly disagree with this statement. This suggests that how much we learn in each class doesn’t matter. Going to school seven days a week, twelve months a year, does not automatically guarantee students will learn more. A lengthened school day cannot unless it encourages and motivates the students. The quality of the classes and the quality of the teachers that care enough to make it interesting for the children to learn is what matters most.
I believe that each point the President made is important. The first point, “Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers” is important. Students and teachers need to be motivated to set higher standards for themselves. President Obama’s second point, “Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay” for outstanding performance so they will work harder. Teachers will feel a need to exceed at their job for the extra benefits. Getting higher pay is a strong incentive to do better. The President’s third point is, “Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day”. If the President means making the school day shorter, then we might not be able to learn as much in a school day without high quality teachers. Teachers would have to cram everything in to just a few periods a day. I’m afraid there wouldn’t be time for lunch, and subjects like physical education and art. If so, I disagree. The school day should stay as is. President Obama’s fourth and final point, “Providing every American with a quality higher education” is, in my opinion, the most important. As I mentioned earlier, every American deserves a quality education whether they go to public or private school. I can envision some difficulties in these points. For example: Awarding outstanding teachers with merit pay. Schools have suffered severe budget cuts. Even though the teachers would be better, the schools wouldn’t be able to afford it. Almost every teacher would try harder to strive at their job, and therefore more money spent toward rewarding the teachers with a higher salary.
1. I think that encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers will promote student "education". I think that if we have higher standars we will help promte student education because if we don't rase our avrages we will go no where in life. Like senator Duncan said "You're competing for jobs with kids from India and China." If we don't work hard we will be replaced by peaople from other countries.That is why I think encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers will promote student "education".
ReplyDelete2. I think secatary Duncan thinks that we do not spend enough time in school.He thinks we should stay in school longer, so we can learn more. I agree with him. I think that we should stay in school longer. We will know more and be preapared for the real world.This knowledge we can ready to takle getting better, more successful careers.
3. In the presidential pep talk, the presedent talks about four points.
-Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers
-Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay
-Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day
-Providing every American with a quality higher education
I think that encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers is very important. I think that if we get higher standards we will be more successful in or lifes. It is an endless competion for jobs. If someone is smarter then you then they will get the job you want. I think that rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay is some what important. If the teachers get more money they will preform a better job of teaching their student. They could give a bit more effort in meeting the student to their highest academic performence. Also the better salary the better the better the qualities for teacher canidants. I think reforming the school calendar and the length of the school days is also some what important. I think if we extend the school day we can learn more. If we learn more, we can be better then others. I think providing every American with a quality higher education is important. If we don't get a higher education then we will not learn as much as we need to. If we want to be successful we need to learn more.Like if you are appling for a job, and you know more then the other canidants then you will most likley get the job.
I would say that to promote student education the schools should extend the school year and the school week. The reason for this is because if we spend more time in school we could learn more, and have a better education. I also think that if good teachers get rewarded with merit pay, other teachers lacking enthusiasm would want a better salary too, and raise their efforts to teach students.
ReplyDeleteI think that Secretary Duncan thinks that the purpose of school is to get a better education so that other countries such as India and China wouldn’t have an advantage over the U.S. Yes, I do agree that the school calendar should be extended so that we learn more from what is provided. However, we all need some time off, not all of it, but for example, just for a few weeks during the summer.
I believe that President Obama’s points are very important. However, I do imagine difficulties on providing each point. For example, the economy is in a very bad situation. So providing every talented teacher with merit pay may be difficult, and could cause trouble if the teachers don’t get what they wanted, or some get more than others.
1.Providing every American with a higher quality education is the best to promote student education. This is the best because even if you make school longer then you can still get horrible grades. Just because you’re in school longer doesn’t mean that you will work any harder to in school to be a better student. In fact making school longer may discourage kids from working hard and would be too much pressure. If you enhance the quality of education, then the chance that children will do better and work harder in school. If teachers found a way to make school fun then kids would be more interested in what they were teaching which would result in better grades.
ReplyDelete2.I don’t agree with Secretary Duncan. I think he is suggesting that we should compete and with people around the world and that we have to measure up to what they do so that we have to always be cautious of what we do in school and how it will affect us in the word of competition. I don’t agree with Mr. Duncan. I think that we shouldn’t think so much about consequences and other nations and that we should think more about how we should improve ourselves to be the best we can be. The only competition people should have and do have is with themselves.
3.The 4 points president Obama made were very important. If you don’t encourage students and improve schools then kids will never fulfill their dreams. If education is bad then students might think that they can never become anything and can’t live out their dreams, which is something you want children to believe. The difficulties that may acquire is when kids don’t want help, when they think that they know everything and that they are fine and that don’t need help and know what they want to do and what kind of person they want to be. You can’t help people who don’t want to be helped.
The effort that seems to best promote the student “education” in my opinion is to expand the school hours and schooldays. ‘’I think schools should be open six, seven days a week, 11, 12 months a year.’” is what U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. I agree with Secretary Arne Duncan because you are competing with kids from India and China for jobs. No one wants their children to drop out of school or go to college and end up jobless in the end. Expanding the school days and hours the teachers can help students to understand. Five days of school might not be enough for students to understand what to do. Instead they may be confused about their homework, class work, or projects. Many kids actually are confused with what they’re learning and just are too timid to ask the teacher for help. In order for them to pass they need to know what the teachers are teaching to them.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Duncan thinks we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year so children learn more in school. The major purpose of schools is to learn and teach us how to do our jobs. I agree with Secretary Duncan. I agree because if you don’t know how to do your job, there is no pint of doing the job. For example if you are a doctor but you didn’t go to a school then you wouldn’t know how to help people from sickness. By using your education it may help you in the future.
President Obama made four points. The first one is important because you need to encourage students and teachers for better standards. The second one is not important because teachers’ job is to teach students. If they did a good job on educating a student they are doing their job. It doesn’t mean you get extra payment. The third one is not important because that means longer school hours. If it’s longer school hours that mean no time to finish homework and no time to do what you want to do. The fourth one is important because higher education would mean less people are homeless and more people would have jobs. I can envision difficulties in making these improvements because people are lazy, don’t want to learn, and use electronics then doing homework.
1. The one to me that best promotes student education is Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers. I think this is the best because it will force kids to study harder. Like if a student gets a low almost to two three, they should be going to summer school and then have to take another state exam. For teachers if some of your students are doing badly in that subject they should be forced to go to an afterschool program with that subject teacher. If it is that the student is only doing badly there and passing other subjects that teacher should be pressured to help those or that student(s).
ReplyDelete2. The secretary thinks that school is not for education but for jobs. Yes that is are main focus but someone with an education will live life better than someone who has a job without remembering their basic studies. I think lengthen school days will cause pressure. We are already under enough pressure these days without longer school days the drop-out rate will increase if they lengthen school days.
3. The one I see that will cause problems is the rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay. Some teachers will argue that they are outstanding and demand higher pay per week, will some that don’t will go on strike. The comments are not important because to me it will cost too much money. We already have to share books in some classes if the higher education for each student is put into effect the cost of books might rise because of economics.