Technology, fashion and transport. These are just a few of the many components of everyday life that have evolved over the decades, constantly changing to meet the current needs of people. Yet there is one essential part of almost everyone’s life that has been stuck for far too long: the education system.
According to information from psychology today, the origins of the modern structure of the education system are rooted in industrialization and the need for efficient workers. These workers were essentially forced to conform to social norms, depriving them of the opportunity to be independent thinkers.
For decades, the United States Government advocated for educational reform, but this reform was nothing more than a push for assessing the worth of students using standardized tests that do not describe students’ academic abilities, but rather their ability to regurgitate indoctrinated information crammed into 180-day study programs.
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this reform was nothing more than a push for assessing the worth of students using standardized tests that do not describe students’ academic abilities, but rather their ability to regurgitate indoctrinated information crammed into curricula of 180 days.
A 2020 Time The article examined the education initiatives of past presidential administrations such as President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top, which attempted to address the flaws in the education system but continued to highlight the importance of standardized tests.
The initiatives passed at the national and local levels were merely hollow plans that gave legislators a sense of gratification, with little or no positive impact on the well-being of today’s students.
Then a global pandemic struck, and the structure of the American educational system was tested. The results? The realization that the educational system of this country is an inequitable and inadequate institution that does not prepare American youth.
A 2013 study by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly two-thirds of young teachers are ill-prepared to enter the classroom and that blended learning is disrupting the learning process for students, students’ futures are more vulnerable than ever and something needs to be done before the damage does not become irreversible.
Online learning has significantly worsened student mental health and a study by active minds found that 20% of students say their mental health has deteriorated during the pandemic. Instead of ignoring this mental health epidemic, the education system must do its part to adapt to the ever-changing needs of students.
It’s time to do away with the old ways of teaching and embrace a new era of education that places less emphasis on meaningless testing and instead establishes a curriculum that emphasizes learning. importance of collaborative work and assesses students’ academic abilities by incorporating meaningful testing. projects that allow students to use the tools they are learning and apply them to different situations.
Today’s students are the future of the world and it’s time to stop treating them like just a student ID.
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