Argumentative Essay On Changing Education

Marian Wright Edelman once said, “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” With the way education is changing today, is it improving the lives of students and changing the community or destroying it? In several different articles, people are saying that education is changing and not improving the lives of many students. Teachers are being treated differently and students are not learning as much. This should not be happening in today’s education curriculum, but unfortunately it is. People in today’s society needs to find a way to change the education field to where it improves the students’ lives and improves the community instead of destroying it.

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According to the article Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer be Taught in Schools Because It’s a Big, Old Waste of Time, by John Boone (2013), seven states are fighting to keep cursive in the curriculum. Those states are California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Utah. Their argument to keep it was that “it helped distinguished the literate from the illiterate.” Whatever the argument is more states should be fighting to keep it because it will help student later on when they have to sign checks or official documents. Another reason why it is important to keep cursive writing in the curriculum is that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting. It enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing, and cognitive skills (J. Boone, 2013). This would help the students later on in life if they decide to do sports. According to Boone (2013), not learning cursive could have consequential results. One result would not being able to sign checks. We will lose the ability to interpret valuable cultural, such as historical documents; ancestors’ letters and journals; and handwritten scholarship, if we cannot read cursive (J. Boone, 2013). This has been found to be true. People are having a hard time reading historical documents, like the Declaration of

The majority of technology changes has helped improve education in the students’ lives. But it also hurts a small amount of the students who may not have Wifi or Internet at their house. Thus they would not be able to do their homework and would possibly get penalized for it. Students can now work together on assignments and larger projects without having to meet at the library after school (M. Lynch, 2014). This benefits the students a great amount. They do not have to worry about getting to a library or somewhere with a computer before the place closes. They can also share things with each other when one of them is sick or just not at school in general. According to Matthew Lynch (2014), students can access research in ways that were unheard of when their parents were in school. Today many students can go online and look for research. When their parents were in school and had to access research, they would go to the library and look in encyclopedias. Online learning has found its way into elementary schools (M. Lynch, 2014). This can prepare them for future classes in high school and college that they could potentially take. According to Matthew Lynch (2014), the way teachers prep has changed with technology. Teachers now enter their grades and lesson plans online. They also plan some activities for their students to do online. It has also taught teachers to adapt to the