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PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
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Module 8-Discussion Forum:
Present and Future of American Education
Departament of
Education, Ana G. Mendez University
EDUC 714: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on
Education
PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
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What do you understand is the present and future of American education?
In our present, United States public educational system is going through an evident
deterioration. American citizens are extremely concerned and there is an increasing anxiety in
regards to the factors impeding United States to place in the top countries for excellence in
education. It is important to mention that after the 1983 report titled :”A Nation at Risk”
The
Imperative for Educational Reform
, interest for a school reform emerged.
As Babones (2015)
mentions: “ Among other things, the report contributed to the ever-growing assertion that
American schools were failing, and it touched off a wave of local, state, and federal reform
efforts. This event provoked a series of reforms with the goal to make our public educational
system more uniform, with the requirement of standardized testing to measure not only student
accountability but also the school accountability.
Schools today need to embrace the technologies of the 21
st
century where students use the
classroom as a collaborative space, solving real-life problems along other students from the
globe, throughout
the use of collective knowledge. In that sense, we need to mention that
education is changing so vertiginous as technology. For example, technologies such as virtual
reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, and blended/virtual learning are contributing to the birth
of “digital natives”, making technology an integral part of our children’s lives.
In conclusion, students should be the center in every decision making process at the national
and institutional levels. We can then comment that our educational system needs to focus on
preparing our students to critically look for solutions to the issues we face today and the insertion
into the future workforce, always taking into the respect for account culture and diversity.
PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
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References
Babones, S. (2015).
"Education "reform's big lie: The real reason the right hand
Declared war on our public schools. "
DuFour, R., Reeves, D., & DuFour, R. (2017).
Responding to the Every Student Succeeds Act
with the PLC at WorkTM process (integrating ESSA and professional learning
communities)
. Solution Tree.
Heise, M. (2017). From No Child Left Behind to Every Student Succeeds: Back to a future for
education federalism.
Columbia Law Review, 117
(7), 1859-1896.
LUMEN Learning. (n.d.).
History of education
.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/foundationsofedx81xmaster/chapter/historyof-
education/ (Links to an external site.)
Popkewitz, T.S. (2007).
Cosmopolitanism and the age of school reform: Science, education and
making society by making the child
. Routledge.
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