The Pros And Cons Of The American Education System

Broken. Like our promises. A system seemingly too robust to change. Inflexibly forced through the jagged fissure of inequity. A broken system, renewed each day. The consequences of our inaction manifest themselves in tiny faces—of all colors and creeds. They are the products of a system that overlooked them—the forgotten children of America. Through the years, they have fallen victim to a system established to cultivate their minds and guarantee bright futures. Routinely, politicians, who we charge with safeguarding our children’s interests, have sacrificed them at the altar of the American Education System. How do we expect students to brave the troubles of reality if we have not first equipped them with the tools of education? All Americans are entitled to a free and equal public education. This is a core American idea, and our Founders believed it was a right of all citizens. Ben Franklin once said, “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Nothing does greater good for any society than educating its citizens. In this regard, we have failed—profoundly. Inequities in the American Education System have persisted for too long. Doubling down on failed policy only serves to exacerbate our compounding debts to American children. Policies like tracking and other ability-grouping systems sunder our society and

They changed the culture of education over a decade ago, and they haven’t looked back sense. They abandoned standardized testing, homework, and tracking—staples in American education. They instead sought equity, and the test scores followed. Since their change, the have unfailingly ranked in the top five for reading, mathematics, and science. The scores do not lie. They pass. We fail. We are 39th in math, 24th in reading, 24th in science, we produce more functionally illiterate and innumerate students than almost any other developed nation (Levitsky, 2017). The mantle of greatness is not