Mr. Richardson believes that all Americans need to raise their productivity through better education in order to get good future jobs. Productivity should be raised for early childhood on up to high school level students. In order to raise productivity, the public must change how they finance public education. Mr. Richardson thinks that it is crazy that public schools are still funded by local property taxes.The reason he thinks that this is a bad idea is because some cities have more expensive property than others and bring in more tax dollars.He does not think that this is fair to poor school districts.
I agree with him. The state should come up with a better way to fund schools. Maybe they should collect all of the tax money and divide it up among all of the public schools.If they did this then each public school would have the same amount of funds and students could get the education they need to obtain higher paying jobs.
Higher Ed is the Province of the High Achieving and the Wealthy
This blog post raises very important issues with the college systems in America. According to the post, most universities are set up to only accept the wealthy or high achieving students. Although the G.I. Bill and Great Society were originally set up to help middle class students get into good schools, they are doing little to help get these students into good universities. Most state schools are low on funds and private schools are too expensive for the middle class to afford, this situation makes it harder for middle class students to get into good schools.
Although it is wrong to have universities set up this way, it is common in most states. The simple fact of the matter is money talk. This practice is unfair to young deserving students. Students growing up in richer families have better grades and higher standardized test scores than middle and lower class people. I think that standardized tests should be done away with to give all students a fair chance at a higher education.
Good job including the direct link to Higher Ed is the Province of the High Achieving and the Wealthy.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the evidence for this statement- "Students growing up in richer families have better grades and higher standardized test scores than middle and lower class people."
"I think that standardized tests should be done away with to give all students a fair chance at a higher education." Are standardized tests the reason all students don't have a fair chance at higher education? How would school systems, locally and nationally, be able to track the progress of students and schools?
There are a lot of students in college who should not be there. They do not want to do the work necessary to learn. If we did not admit them, maybe there would be sufficient resources for others.
ReplyDeleteThoughtful. Interesting. Jacey Blaire raise some interesting questions as well.
Your work is much better this semester. Keep it up!