Persuasive Essay On Public Education

What classes or subjects should students learn about in school to make them well-educated and fulfill the goals of public education? Say what your goals of public education are. This K-12 and state what would be important if you were making those decisions. After listening to my classmates in Op-eds, the readings, and the class discussions, I feel there are a number of classes/subjects that should be taught in schools to help develop well-educated students. These are just a few of the subjects and their content if I developed a public education curriculum. My goal would be for every high school graduate to walk away from high school with the tools and knowledge to succeed as a functioning member of society. I would put emphasis on skills

I feel year round school is a great way to ensure students are prepared for the real world, limiting the “summer sly,” and providing more time for education. Also I would add coteaching to subjects such as math and english, in addition to providing an assistant (licensed teachers/assistant, parent volunteers, older students) in classes such as science, life skills, foreign language, and physical/health education. I feel the policies on testing and evaluations have the right idea, but are implemented poorly. I would like to have all standardized exams in K-8 to be the same nationwide for each grade. If the student does not pass or are not at the grade level they are currently attending, the student should not move to the next grade in hopes to send all students to high school at the same level of learning. Standardized testing, I feel, would be more beneficial if it was a progressive testing format (start with the basics and continue to test until student gets a certain number of question incorrect). The exam would show results of students’ strengths and weaknesses, similar to the Smarter Balance test, but for more subjects. I also think policies on school effectiveness should be enacted; both schools and teachers should be evaluated based on multiple types of criteria including school hours, programs (after school programs, sport programs, homework help), building (accessibility, temperature, classroom setup, technology, office staff, communication between school and families, educational resources (books, physical equipment, computers), teachers (professionalism, communication between teachers and students and teachers and parents, enthusiasm, effectiveness), evaluations by peers, students, and parents. These policy changes would help improve schools and help students become