Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Education as Top Priority: The Challenges of Education Reform

Education has a critical role in the society. By cultivating future generations who will be able to express their individuality and creativity, this improves society in general. However, this goal is often buried under the people in the nation obsessive pursuit to raise test scores. This is an indicator of improvement of the education system. There are many problems in education. These are the main improvements that people feel needs to be taken: Improving existing public school system by increasing national standards, improving the existing school system by providing adequate funding, as well as challenging the existing school system by offering other choices. One of the best ways to meet the ultimate objective of the education reform is by reforming the public school system by creating student-centered schools, solving the problem of the teacher-centered traditional school system that imposes a standardized curriculum on students which is believed to be the underlying problem. Students are cultivating a capacity to think, enabling them to handle real-life situations.