Sunny'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
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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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1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteThere was an statement made by Barack Obama said that "we should encourage better standards and assesments for students and teachers. He also said that "they can not succeed if they dont take responsibility for their own education". What Barack Obama means by the second phrase is that some kids they just go to school, just to get over with it. Thats not right kids should care about how they take in school and be responsibile for it.
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?
Kids in India and China have more days in school. Thats why secretary Duncan wants to lengthen the school year in the United States. He thinks kids will be smarter and get higher grade marks. In the India and China kids get higher outscores than in the U.S. becasue they have more hours in school. I disagree with secretary Duncan because they shouldnt take kids childhood away. I think 10 months of school is the perfect amount to learn everything they needd to know, if they want to learn.
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?
The president Barack Obama pointed out that kids should pay attention in class. Also kids that dont do well in school should take extra tutoring. The most important issue he said was dont drop out of school. One more thing he said was providing every American with a higher education. The more sudents learn the the greater possibilities they have for the brighter future.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteThe best thing for student’s education is what is happening to them to schools. Even though you don’t pay attention a lot of you day dream a lot, it doesn’t mean that you should be in trouble it means you should work harder and put yourself to the test. Still you are suppose to be responsible and get in trouble because if you do it too much that’s out of hand and you should get into trouble. Also you need to keep these things in balance but the most excepted thing from everyone is a high standard from everyone if you can’t just try to pay attention and don’t take our privileges away from us to much.
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?
This statement tell me a lot except that the people in India and china have more days of school and they are smarter and we are trying to compete with them because they will have a better job advantage than us because first of all they might know a foreign language and two they have longer school days for better education. Any ways I still disagree with sacristy Dunkin because more school days will stress us out and so what if they got more school days they might learn less in the day than we learn in 2 hours so I disagree.
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?
I do not think all of them are important because some parents do care a lot about their child’s education and some just want them to have fun, but some made a lot of sense like responsibility, hope, and the future are powerful words which I believe in. To make these things work the child is suppose to believe in himself, and do everything that he’s told.
1. I think that the best effort that helps improve student education is that students should pay more attention to school.I know that everyone once in awhile has a bad day or just isn't feeling well enough to participate but we should try to make sure we pay attention and understand what we are learning. We should ask questions and if we need extra help everyone should go to a teacher after school or have a tutor come to there house. We all should have responsibility and make sure we get good grades and aim for a higher grade the next time.
ReplyDelete2.I do not agree with the statement that secretary Duncan made because the statement tells us school is all about competing with other people so we can be better. I don't think that is right.I think that school is about learning and making sure we have a bright future, and if we can have a great academic standard in our country.He also says that we should lengthen our school days and year.I still disagree with that.Children should have free time and have a childhood.We shouldn't stress us out with so much school work.We should have vacations so we can relax our brains and when we come back we will have the stress gone out of our minds and be able to learn more.If we are to stressed out in our school work and have no time for our social life then we would not learn so much.The outcome might be that students get so stressed out that they drop out of school.We are trying to make students stay in school, not make them crazy and drop out.
3.I think that some of the points our president made were important and other not very much.It is true that we should have responsibility and that we shouldn't drop out of school, but as he said we should have extra torturing that might be a problem.The kids parents might not have the money or wont be able to pick them up from school.There can be many more reasons why the student cant have extra torturing.That is on reason I believe this will be a problem.
1.I think that the best to promote students in education is exactly what President Obama said. “America cannot succeed unless our students take responsibility for their own education. That means showing up for school on time, paying attention in class, seeking out extra tutoring if it's needed, and staying out of trouble. And to any student who's watching, I say this: don't even think about dropping out of school. “If we the student’s don’t stick together fight our generation’s problems and be responsible who else is going to do it? Our parents? No we are. Many students just want to get 100's, A+'s and get the highest grade, but they don’t want to work for it. The adults and teachers today including our parents know how they did in school and what they can help us on. This is how we students can stick together and be the best that we can be.
ReplyDelete2.I don’t agree with Secretary Duncan’s statement. It says we should consider lengthening the school day and the school year because "you're competing for jobs with kids in India and China." We students need to work hard to get good grades but we also need a life. What I mean by saying life is spending time with our family and friends. The problem is after middle school many girls and boys stop school. It gets to challenging for them. School is to challenge us; the kids who drop out don’t think that the teachers or parents don’t believe in them. This is when children start doing drugs, vandalism, and smoking. I feel bad for them because I think they also get the idea of smoking from the teachers around them.
3.The points that the president made are very important about school improvement is excellent but for providing every American with a quality higher education. If we look down the list and compare it to what is happening today, it needs improvement. Encouraging students is what makes them happier and they feel confident in what goals they are trying to get to. It is true some teachers do work harder than others but they all get equally paid. That is what is not fair to our teachers. Some have more kids to teach than others and some just don’t care except of them getting paid. Providing every American with a quality higher education is very hard to do. Many after school programs are being cut, many teachers can not teach anymore, and our economy is down.
1. I think the effort that best promotes student "education" is what Senator Duncan said about how governors need to take responsibility and “improve teacher quality”. I agree with this in particular because it really reflects how a teacher has the power to inspire a student. On the other hand, if a teacher doesn’t connect to the student in any way the student isn’t likely to learn. I know this from personal experience. If I don’t like a teacher not only will I resent doing work for him/her I probably won’t be inspired to learn. However, I have been lucky enough to have some of the really good teachers and those are the subjects I will care about. For example, math has never been my strong subject but if I happen to get a really good math teacher I will start to care about math because I care about my math teacher. So you see, I really agree with Senator Duncan on this because when you “improve teacher quality” you make school not fun, but bearable, interesting, and maybe even enjoyable.
ReplyDelete2. I disagree with this statement so strongly it goes beyond not funny. Now, I understand were Senator Duncan is coming from. He, like many people believe that when my generation is all grown up India and China will have gotten ahead of us. Here is were I find fault. Lengthening the school week or year is simply not the answer. Students don’t enjoy school because they find it boring or they don’t like their teachers. Making school longer will not “improve teacher quality” or create more hands-on activities. I think four days a week of a good school would be much more effective than six days a week of utter boredom. School should be more full of activities and less full of textbooks. Also, state tests don’t make school any more enjoyable or inspiring for kids. This statement suggests that the secretary thinks the major purpose of schools is to keep the future generation on top of its game. He doesn’t think gaining a love of education but to gain the right kind of education to push us ahead of the kids in China and India who go to school 365 days a year. I don’t care if India and China get ahead of America. I think such an experience would be good for the ego of our country. We are so used to being on top. I truly understand and believe in the importance of a good education for all children but cutting back on some state tests won’t send us back into the dark ages. If Senator Duncan wants to make summer vacations one month instead of two months than be my guest, as long as we get those thirty days back at some other points during the year, because adding school time is simply not the right call. Students would enjoy school even less, and they wouldn’t try as hard. As you can see I strongly disagree with senator Duncan.
3. I think most of the points president Obama said about school improvement were valid. He mentioned reforming the school calendar which I agree could always be changed. Also, and I feel most important President Obama spoke about “providing every American with a quality higher education”. He is just trying to say that education is important and that every American deserves a good one. I completely agree with this, and I think it’s good of President Obama to talk about this. It is setting the bar high, and hoping to reach this goal of a good education.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think the best effort that promotes student education is what Secretary Duncan said. He said," Governors must pledge to improve teacher quality, raise academic standards..." I think this is a good effort because they are going to assign their most effective teachers fairly to poor students as well as those better off. I think improving teacher quality is an excellent idea because most students don't do their work because they don't like the teacher. But if the teacher is polite and has better teacher quality students might feel inspired and do much better work.
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?
I completely disagree with Secretary Duncan. Secretary Duncan's statement suggests that he thinks the major purpose of school is the length of a school day. I don't agree with this statement because it doesn't matter how long we stay in school,but how much we learn in school. Children in India and China might have longer school days but it doesn't mean they learn more than us. If you increase the school year kids will only hate school even more. Also kids will lose interest in school and feel less inspired. Kids will be bored,won't have any free time,and won't have enough time to do the large amount of homework they obtain.
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?
The points President Obama made are very important. I think the most important point is:Providing every American with a quality higher education. I think this is the most important point because every American should have a great education.I think the second most important point is:
Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay. I actually think this is important because teachers might actually teach if they get paid more. Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers" comes third and "Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day" comes last.
1. I think that if the students pay a speak of attention to the teacher they will not be as lost as they claim to be. I know sometimes you got off on the wrong side of the bed, or get into a fight with a friend , or the cats got your tongue I know that but you should at least make an effort to pay attention in class. If you don’t understand something in a specific subject or the lesson that the teacher is giving you then ask the teacher. Don’t be afraid because the other kids will laugh at you because it you that will go home and not understand the homework not the other students. So go out there and don’t think about what will the other student’s think of me just ask a question maybe your question is someone else’s.
ReplyDelete2. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan statement because it says that we are competing with other people. That is not right. School is not for competition. School is for learning and for having a bright future. Secretary Duncan also said that they should extend the school day and year. I strongly disagree with that because children need to have time to play around and have fun. We only have two days off in the whole week. They can’t take that away from us. It bad enough we have to go to school 5 days a week and stress out over school work. We need time to relax our brains. If we are to stressed out students may just drop out of school. And we don’t want that. We want kids to stay in school.
3. I think that some issues that our president pointed out were important and some were not as important. Like school issues are important. Kids should not drop out of school. If the students are slow their parents should hire him/her a tutor. But that could be a problem because some parents can’t afford a tutor or some don’t want strangers in their homes. Some parents work and can’t pick their kid up from school. This is one reason I believe this is a problem.
1. I think the effort best premote student education is what the president said in the speech, president obama didnt waste his breathe to say that speech for nothing. His point was hoping all the student in the United States to take responisbility and better their grades.
ReplyDelete2.Secretary Duncan thinks extending school days will help our educational progress. I have one thing to day in his face, Your DEAD WRONG and I completely disagree with his options. His phrase suggest to me that he thinks that kids in the United States are less educated than kids in China and India. He said we are "competing" with kids from foreign countries. I very much disagree with this part of the statement.There are big corperations and companies in China and India. Why would they come over to the United States to work? They got lives, too they want also want to see family members once in a while.
3.All of the predisent's points are important. Providing better education for every american is one of the most important because we will be able to better ourselves and find new discoveries and solve problems with knowledge.
I also want to say one more thing, extending the school days wont change anything. Unless the students are motivated it will just be a extra hour, or day. There will be no difference and there might even be a serious drop in grades. So, I ask you Mr Duncan, are you sure your plan is fool proof ? There better be some type of "motivation" in that plan of yours.
1.I think that the best way to promote Education is what Obama said in his speech.The point of obama making this speech was because he wants students to take responsibility for thier grades.
ReplyDelete2.Secatary Duncan is thinking about extending the school day and the school year.The reason for this is because of the kids in india and china. Duncan says that we are less educated than the kids in china and india. I totally disagree with his descitions for several reasons.
3.I think that every single point that Obama said is very impotant. One thing he said was that students should take toturing if they need it. Another thing he said was to pay alot of attention in class. He also said providing every American student with higher education. The most important thing he said was to never drop out of school.
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ReplyDelete1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI believe the effort that best promotes student “education” is for students to be more responsible with their work. If students were more responsible with their school work, homework, projects, and tests, they would get much better grades. Instead, many students choose to not work hard and slack. This is why students are getting bad grades. As president Obama said "Of course, no matter how innovative our schools or how effective our teachers, America cannot succeed unless our students take responsibility for their own education. That means showing up for school on time, paying attention in class, seeking out extra tutoring if it's needed, and staying out of trouble.” If students would just listen In class and not slack, grades would be much higher.
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?
Secretary Duncan believes that our students should have more school time, just like students in India and China. Kids in India and China have higher grades than students in the United States because of their longer school years. Secretary Duncan thinks that if students in the United States have longer school years, they would get much higher grades. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan. If students in the United States suddenly get longer school years, they may panic, thus resulting in even worse grades than before.
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?
I do believe that some of the president’s points about school improvement were important, but others were not. An important point he made was that students should pay attention in school and be responsible. One of his points had a problem though. He said that students should get extra tutoring when they need it. The problem is that many parents may not be able to afford tutoring. His statement telling students to not drop out of school was a very important point. He said it straight and strong at all the students watching. “To any student who is watching; don’t even think about dropping out of school.”
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think that the best effort that helps improve student education is that students should pay more attention to school. The reason I say this is because if students pay attention in school they will get a better education. But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world -- and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless you pay attention to those teachers. That is why I think the best effort that helps improve students is paying attention in school.
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?
I disagree with Secretary Duncan because I feel that he doesn’t want to do this for schools, but he wants to do it for competition. He feels that we are competing for jobs in China and India against kids. I realized that he wants to do this to win the competition .I think that all of the points that President Barrack were urgent and important, but hard. You have to study hard and we may not have time to study because Secretary Duncan wants to make school longer and harder for us. Giving teachers wealthy payment means that we would have to cut down any after school activities. The schools are already on budget cuts because of the economy and we would like to go past that situation. We wouldn’t have time for family, friends or outdoor activities. You cannot give every child the right amount of education.
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?
The points that President Barrack Obama are important . The first one is important because students should always try their best in school so that they could learn and become smarter as they grow up and teachers should try their best so the students wouldn’t have any problems learning. The second one is also important because teachers should be rewarded for teaching us stuff that we need to know for the future and without them we wouldn’t know what we know today. The third point is important because if the school hours were longer, the students would learn a lot more in one day. The fourth point is linked to the third point. Like I said if the school hours were longer the students will learn more in one day and receive a better education.
1) I think the best way to promote students education is for students to take responsibility for their own education. Students need to show up for school on time, pay attention in class, ask for help when you need it, and stay out of trouble to get good grades. Students shouldn't drop out of school. One mistake and it will affect your whole life.
ReplyDelete2) Secretary Duncan suggests we have longer school years and more hours of school. Secretary Duncan thinks we don’t have enough school days. Its because the kids in India and China have higher grades then we do. I totally disagree with Secretary Duncan because it doesn’t matter how much hours or days of school we have. You have to pay attention, study hard, do your work and ask questions when you don’t understand. These are the only ways to succeed in school.
3) Everything the president, Barack Obama is important. Students should show up for school on time, pay attention in class, get extra tutoring if it's needed, and stay out of trouble. If students are late they get less things to learn and if the don’t pay attention they miss things. If they don’t ask for help it maybe to late and if you don’t stay out of trouble you could get expelled and miss school. He also said "don't even think about dropping out of school." If you do you miss a lot and it will affect what you do in the future.
1. I think that the best effort that helps improve student education is that students should pay more attention to school instead of games and electronic. I know that once in awhile you have a bad day or just get lazy but we should try to make sure we pay attention as much as we can all the time. If we need extra help you should go to a teacher after school. We all should make sure we get good grades and aim for a higher grades all the time.
ReplyDelete2. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan because if the lengthen the school day you will not have as much time to spend with your parents. I think spending time with family is more important than going to school.
3. I think that every point that Obama made was important. One thing he said was that students should have extra help if they need it. Another thing he said was to pay a lot of attention in class. The last important thing he said was to never drop out of school. I agree with him.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think that starting school at six or seven and having 11 or 12 months of school is the best thing to promote. I think it is the best to promote because with the extra school time students that do good can learn more during school days and students that are falling behind can catch up. This way everyone can do well in school and be successful in the future.
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?
I think that that statement is showing what he thinks is a flaw and is addressing to the major saying what he thinks is the right thing. Also I think that he is saying this just as a suggestion which he thinks might help the economy and the next generation of kids for the future. That is what I think the secretary’s statement suggests.
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?
I think that each one of the changes is equally important. I think that because it is for the same cause. And I think if it is for the same cause than it is very important especially if the cause is education. But I think that some of these programs might be difficult. Like for example giving outstanding teachers with merit pay. That could be a difficult because how are teachers going to get more money when the economy is failing and when people are loosing jobs. That is what I think is the difficulties of the improvements the government is making.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think that the best effort that helps improve student education is that students should pay more attention to school. The reason I say this is because if students pay attention in school they will get a better education. But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world -- and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless you pay attention to those teachers. That is why I think the best effort that helps improve students is paying attention in school.
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?
I disagree with the statement. I think we shouldn’t have longer school days and longer school year, because kids need a break, and we need a weekend off. I think Secretary Duncan shouldn’t worry about competing with China and Indian kids. I understand that we need education but we can’t have too much. Kids like to have fun, spend tine with friends and family, and they won’t be able to do that if they extend the school days. I think that all of the points that President Barrack were urgent and important. You have to study hard and we may not have too much time to study because Secretary Duncan wants to make school longer and harder for us. Also if their not going to give us weekends off we won’t study that hard because we will have to do homework (sometimes a lot of HW) and we won’t have time. So it would be better if we had weekends off and we will study more hard. Giving teachers more money means that they will have to take away the school activities.
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?
The points that President Barrack Obama is important. The first one is important because students should always try their best in school so that they could learn and become smarter as they grow up. The second one is also important because teachers should be rewarded for teaching us stuff that we don’t know and stuff that we need to know for the future. The third point is important because if the school hours were longer, the students would learn a lot more in one day. The fourth point is linked to the third point. If the school hours were longer the students will learn more in one day and receive a better education.
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ReplyDelete1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think the best way to promote a students education is to encourage better standards and assessments for students and teachers, reward outstanding teachers with merit pay and to provide every American with a quality higher education. President Obama was absolutely correct when he stayed right on topic and explained these amazing points. If everyone has a higher education then everyone will have the chance to learn something knew. If outstanding teachers have the chance to receive merit pay, that might motivate them to work harder in preparing challenging but interesting lessons so students can learn but not be bored. This is why I think President Obama’s statement is the best to promote a student’s education.
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?
I disagree with Secretary Duncan. The secretary’s statement was that the school day should be lengthen because students are competing for jobs with kids in India and China. I disagree because students need to be themselves and succeed in school. Some students live far away from their schools and have to take the train or bus which takes a long time so if school hours are increased then they would be getting home even later. Increasing school hours is a big disadvantage for these students especially because if they enjoy sports or dance, they have even less time. You can’t just expect students to stay up past 12:00 at night trying to finish their homework. This is why I disagree.
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?
The president made some excellent points and I think most of them are important. To encourage better standards and assignments for students and teachers is important because it will help students set higher goals for themselves and not hate doing assignments. If teachers set reasonable standards then more students will succeed. Rewarding outstanding teachers is important because they will continue to do an excellent job if they know they are being recognized and teachers might work even harder when there is a reward involved like most students. Providing every American with a quality higher education is important because this can bring out a persons full potential it the have the chance to get a quality higher education. The only statement I think there will be difficulty with is reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day. I envision that this will be difficult for students who get home late on regular days and ones that enjoy activities including sports or just spending time with your family and friends. Extending the school day will cause you not to be able to contribute in these activities. So, the president had many good ideas but I think extending school days and the school calendar is not one of them.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think that the best effort is raising the test standard. Some high schools have reduced the minimum of the test and are getting into college easier; but most of those students don’t understand the material and the work when they get to college. By raising it higher, they might be motivated to study more and if the fail the tests, they will study even more because they want to graduate and do not want to watch her friends graduate without them.
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?
This statement tells us that the secretary thinks that the major purpose of the schools is to learn, learn, and learn without taking a break. He thinks that just because India and China has longer school days they are smarter than us. India and China can be teaching different things like how to speak and write Indian and Chinese meanwhile America teaches how to speak and write English so you can’t really compare the three together. I do not agree with him wanting to lengthen the school days because kids need a break once in a while and summer is the only time we get such a big break. If he takes of even 1 month of that summer, kids would be mad and stressed and more of them will decide to not do the work.
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?
I think that the points that were made were excellent points. For example, to promote better teachers with higher standards to improve test grades and scores so that when children get to college they understand the material. In addition, students need to pay attention more in class and get extra help if they do not understand in class. These are some of the great remarks the President made.
1. Which of these efforts seem to you best to promote student "education"? Why?
ReplyDeleteI think the National Assessment of Educational Progress should make the federal test harder. By making the test harder, you can see who really should go to college and who should not. The results should be that students should only enter college if they are academically ready. If they do not pass the federal test then they should take the remedial courses before they enter college.
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?
Secretary Duncan is trying to say that the students in India and China are smart. In order for the students in America to keep up with them, they should make the school day and school year longer. This way American students will be more completive with Indian and Chinese students. I do not agree with Secretary Duncan because by making the school day longer and the school year longer, students are not going to pay attention to anything the teacher says at the end of the day. This will happen because students are going to be tired of hearing the teachers give lessons all day. Students are going to tune out the teachers and then there will be no point in keeping the students longer. In my opinion I think whatever the teachers say will go in one ear and out the other ear.
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?
I think “Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers” is important because by making better standards students could meet them easier. Making better assessments would be better because then teachers could get a better understanding of what the student does know or doesn’t know. “Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay” is not the best idea. I don’t think it is the greatest idea because how is the city going to know if the teachers are teaching better and the students are getting higher scores. Also how are they going to know if the teachers are teaching better if more students go to college. I know people are going to say the teachers are teaching better because students got better grades on tests, however the tests could have just been easier. Maybe the teachers are going to give easier tests, so they can make more money. It can also be a good idea because maybe the teachers will teach better, then students will do better. “Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day” is not a good idea because students have a life outside a school, maybe they have a basketball game or soccer game. Having longer days would mean that students would come home eat and do their homework and then go to bed. Not only that, however students would start daydreaming because they heard an enough of their teachers talking all day. Then there would be no point of them being there anyway. If there were no vacations then students could not recuperate from all they have learned and it would be like they are dragging themselves along. “Providing every American with a quality higher education” is a splendid idea because every student would have an equal amount of the best education they could receive. I can see one difficulty, which is how is the city going to pay the teachers more with the economy, so bad. Are they going to make more people lose jobs, so teachers can get paid more?
I believe the best effort to promote students education is to raise tests, quizs, and projects standard. These days some teachers educate students that might be lower standard than they are supposed to be on. The teachers has to motivate students by challenging them, giving students more tests and projects. Students may think I'm wrong but it's for your good it will motivate you to do better and better and that will lead to a good career.
ReplyDeleteSecretary Ducan thinks lengthening school time and school years will make us a better student because we are competing with countries like India and China for jobs, he thinks learning is the only main key to sucess, its the only thing you need for your future. I agree and also disagree. I agree because it may help us do better in school and outside school, I believe every students and parents may disagree with me but I suggest you rethink about it. I disagree because the students needs their own time, they need breaks. Kids needs family time. learning is not the only thing to success, kids needs to have fun. Too much school and learning may lead to depress and stress and students will not care about education anymore!
I think the points that were made by our president are really important. Some of the points made by him are to become responsible, pay attention to teachers, get suitable teachers, challenge students to improve and motivate them, get help when needed, have fun enjoy yourself, he also asked parents to help their kids, and do what ever it takes to get yourself a great career. Each one of those examples are important, they are the keys to a great future that you want! So I think president Obama made some excellent points.
The effort that best seems to promote student “education” is to raise academic standards and improve teacher quality. Secretary Duncan said this to the governors. This will promote student education because then students will get challenged more. Students will have to work harder. Also, if you improve teacher quality, especially in high schools, students will be more interested or happy that they are going to the class. For example, if an English teacher interacts or becomes friendly with a student, maybe then the boy or girl might be excited to go to English class. Also, in the article, it said, “The states have simply reclassified inadequate teachers as well qualified, without demanding that they pass competency exams in the fields they teach." In my opinion, this is showing that some states are lazy and really don’t care about us students. This also contributes to bad teacher quality because now there might be a teacher who might not be well qualified to teach but the school he or she works for will think he or she is a good qualified teacher who knows what she has to teach and how to teach it. This is why I think improving teacher quality and raise academic standards best seems to promote student “education”.
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." This statement suggests that Secretary Duncan thinks the major purpose of schools is to be the best and perfect. I disagree with this because lengthening the day and year will just make students more frustrated. We, the students of America got to school for 10 MONTHS and only have 2 months off. In those 10 months we can learn as much or even more than in 11-12 months. Students won’t care about school in those 1-2 months because that 1 or 2 months is their summer vacation. Also, how can kids be perfect? We fail tests sometimes and we pass tests sometimes. We can’t always get 100 on a test even though it is possible. This is why I disagree with Secretary Duncan.
The points that President Obama made are important to school improvement. The first point was, “Encouraging better standards and assessments for students and teachers”. This is important because as I said in the first paragraph, it will make students work harder and get challenged more often. The second point was, “Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay”. This is important because teachers should get the same pay even if some teachers are outstanding and teacher s that are not that good should be warned that their teaching has to be better. The third point was, “Reforming the school calendar and the length of the school day”. This is important because students might get motivated to not care about school. The last point was, “Providing every American with a quality higher education”. This is obviously a work in progress because there are still racists and some school teachers and principals don’t care about the students and just tell them to do this and that. Some just want money
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ReplyDelete1. I think that the best way to promote students education is by paying attention in class instead of talking or daydreaming. If we pay attention in class, we can understand what the teacher is trying to say and what we are learning. If you don’t understand something, don’t be afraid to ask the teacher. They are always willing to help you. There is no point in going to school if you don’t pay attention in class and aren’t learning anything. This is why I think paying attention in class is the best way to promote students education.
ReplyDelete2. Secretary Duncan thinks that we should lengthen school weeks and school years. I strongly disagree because it doesn’t matter how much you learn, what matters is what you learn. If we lengthen school weeks and years, students are going to get bored and stressed out and not pay attention in class or start dropping out of school, which we don’t want to happen. 5 days a week and 10 months a year is enough for us to relax our mind. Another reason I disagree with secretary Duncan is because if we are too busy doing our schoolwork, we won’t have time to spend time with our friends and family. These are reasons why I disagree with secretary Duncan.
3. I think that some points President Obama made were very important and some were not. The most important point is for “Americans to take responsibility for their own education. That means showing up for school on time, paying attention in class, seeking out extra tutoring if it’s needed, and staying out of trouble.” President Obama said, “…Students should seek out extra tutoring if it’s needed. This might be a problem because some parents might not have the money for extra tutoring or won’t want their child with a stranger. The president also said, “ Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay.” I think if teachers get paid more, they might teach better and with a lot of interest.
1.I think the best way to promote students education is having “outstanding teachers”. I believe that an outstanding teacher is one that knowledgeable, caring, and encourages students to learn and to try their best. The teachers should make lessons that speak to the children through activities and games that make the lessons fun. With lessons that are more enjoyable student will like school more because they are learning and having fun at the same time.
ReplyDelete2.I totally disagree with Secretary Duncan. If the government wants the children to do better in school why have them stay longer. The children will just get bored with school and hate it even more than the do now. The children in India and China might have longer days but we do not know what they learn we might go to school a few hours less but we might still learn more than them. I think with increasing the time and days there will be a drastic increase in school dropouts. This idea is just making kids hate school even more.
3. All of President Obama's points are extremely important. I think the most important point that Obama discussed was paying attention is school. If children do not pay attention is class they will not know enough to pass test that are needed to move on in school. Not paying attention is showing that you do not care about school. Also if you do not pay attention you are not doing your best in school. If you do pay attention in school you will pass the test and achieve your goals as a student.
1. I think the best effort to promote a student to education is by telling teachers to make sure their students understand about the topic he/she teaches. Some students might have problems about asking the teacher questions he/she does not feel confident or understand in class. Teachers should sometimes talk to children who are not doing very well and ask the students if there are any problems that are interfering with school. Sometimes the problems might be bullying or just that he is too scared to ask questions. Usually, students don’t pay much attention when they don’t understand the topic.
ReplyDelete2. What Secretary Duncan means by “you’re competing jobs with kids in India and China” is that he is trying to tell us that we, the children in the United States should achieve much more goals at school to get a better future than the children of India and China. There is also a part where Secretary Duncan wants us to have school six in the morning, seven days a week, and school for eleven or twelve months. I half agree and disagree of what Secretary Duncan said. I honestly do think that we children in the United States or New York get several breaks and vacations during the school year. I actually do agree with the part where Secretary Duncan says that we should go to school all seven days. This is the part why I agree with because we have winter, spring, and many other breaks or holidays during the school year. However, I definitely disagree with what Secretary Duncan said about having school, for 11 or 12 months. We students should at least have a break of two months if we will go to school all the days of the week throughout the whole school year. We will be awfully stressed out from all of the work! Also, I disagree with the part of going to school at six o’clock in the morning because we need more sleep and rest to concentrate in school.
3. President Barack Obama made many points about school improvement. One of them was to encourage teachers and students with better standards and assessments. This is important because the better standards and assessments there will be for students and teachers; the better satisfied they will be about school and feel much more confident with the higher standards. Another point from the President was rewarding teachers with higher salary. I believe this point is particularly important because the students usually depend on the teachers. If the teachers are funny and exciting as well as very good at teaching, then the students will most likely pay attention and do their work because they enjoy it. However, if the teachers are good at teaching, but are very boring and mean, then the students won’t even bother to pay attention. The last two points are reforming the school to make the school length longer and providing all American with a quality in higher education. Both are important because we want all the students in the United States to do much better in school, doing much more work by going to school more often, not drop out, and have a successful future!
Mr.Luca says that students should listen instead of playing and slacking. You also said students should take responsibility and they should go to tutoring for help. Sometimes it is not the fault of the student that can’t comprehend the material the teacher says and sometimes they can't get extra help from the teacher. So my question for you is, what would be your method to make sure students understand what the teacher says?
ReplyDelete1. One effort that seems to promote education is to raise the difficulty of the assessments, because just making them easier allows students that shouldn’t be accepted to college to go college. In doing this, many students that go to college aren’t prepared for their standard of work, and end up not getting a diploma. By lowering the standards, we also making going to school look like a big competition, because everyone is passing and making the governors look good.
ReplyDelete2. By that sentence, it shows that the secretary only cares about his competition with the students in China and India. I don’t agree with Secretary Duncan, because lengthening the school day will only stress students out even more than they already are. By lengthening the school year, that only gives students less time to relax, and spend time with their families over the summer. This Secretary takes learning for granted, and treats it as a competitive game.
3. I believe the points that are the most important are “Encouraging better standards and assessments for all students and teachers”, “Rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay” and “Providing every American with a quality education”, because the first one raises the standards to their rightful level: challenging students. By challenging students, they become smarter, and will end up getting diplomas later on. The second one encourages teachers to teach outstandingly to the students. This way teachers will know they are getting paid extra, and students have a good chance a becoming a college graduate. This may be hard to achieve because schools will need to put aside money to pay these teachers. And the final one provides almost every American with a quality education. By providing a quality education to every American, this increases a student’s chances of going to college. This points show a level of importance in school improvements.