Education
Most parents and families believe that education is their top priority and the best way that they can improve their quality of life and achieve prosperity for themselves and their families. Many immigrants and Americans believe in the basic premise of quality education for all Americans and citizens. They braved hardships and difficulties to immigrate to the United States for quality education and freedom. Now faced with the huge recession and budget deficits, funding from federal and state governments are slashing our educational budgets dramatically. Communities are faced with closing schools, teacher lay offs, slashed budgets for the arts, physical education, computer labs, science labs that are children truly need. Students graduating from high schools can’t get into the colleges they apply for. Graduates from colleges faced with huge student loans can’t find jobs and stay in school longer.
Combined with the deep recession, we now face the results of The “No Child Left Behind” governmental policy that was presented as a way to improve our public education system. It was touted to make our children more competitive globally yet it has not delivered those results. There are reports of teachers complaining that they are forcing children to learn how to take the tests to get good results versus teaching the educational principles and lessons children need. Some of the results and outcome of this program is that young students nationwide are dropping out of high school at alarming rates. For many communities, record numbers of high school students are failing to complete high school. Even worse, in some communities with high minority populations, the drop out rate can be as high as 42-50%.
The question is how will our families and children be able to achieve prosperity and a better life if they do not complete their basic education? How are these children going to find good jobs, buy their homes and raise their families in safe secure neighborhoods? We must make education a priority in order for our nation to thrive and survive. We need to get volunteers from our communities to step in and help their local schools. It’s a resource that’s available that we need to tap into to help our communities.
Our underperforming educational system must be analyzed and new recommendations must be made to improve our system. Fundamental changes to our educational policies must be proposed and implemented if we are to reverse this downward disastrous trend to make our families and nation more competitive in the increasingly global economy.
We will be bringing you articles, inviting guest authors and experts to discuss different aspects of education and how it affects our everyday lives and families. Actions, issues and ways that you can get engaged in your own community or on the national level will be brought to you so you can make a difference.
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