The Bottom Line:

After reading the final section of School: The Story of American Public Education, you see the significant change the educational system has undergone from the early eighteenth century to the 1950s and the 2000s. The educational system has gone from not knowing how to educate the children, to be sole exclusive to the white rich families- to the segregation of white children and black children to more than seventy percent of children graduating from high-school and going to college. Although the education system has improved, there are still many faults and changes that needed to be made to reform schooling. The main concern that was discussed was that the United States was not where they should be. Other parts of the world had begun to do much better than America. The Soviets had beat the Americans to space and while Japan began to take over in the auto industry. President Reagan began to fear that America wasn’t where they needed to be because of it education. Which is far from the truth, the students were doing better academically and the stats for that was on a slow raising. Although schools were in fact doing better and had improved since the eighteenth century that was all forgotten because of the concern of the economy. The blame was turned to the schools and what they are failing to do to succeed. The issue was not its education rather the lack of accommodation for its students. I believe the economy could have flourished if they would have gotten the educational system correct instead of enforcing things that were not needed. If it wasn’t for IQ testing then The United States would have had more people in college creating more jobs and building a better economy. Unfortunately, America was focused on the wrongs goals, so much lost potential was there. Though it was proven the nation was not at risk, schools need a new reform. That being the lack of funding and budgeting for schools. This is still a problem to this day. I found it very interested in how the educational system has progressed and how much it has overcome. By 2001, there was more than ninety percent of children enrolled in schools and about 47.8 million students in schools. We have gone from less than a hundred in schools to over a million in schools. Children now have the opportunity for a better education. They have the chance to go to college and choose what career they wish, instead of having a test debate whether or not you should even go off to college. So much has changed, but there is still more that could be done. For one, fixing the budgeting for schools. There are so many schools that don’t have money for new books or even supplies. Teachers who aren’t being paid the amount they should be and what I believe is the most important is free college. College nowadays is very much expensive, and teens may not have the opportunity to attend college and some have to take loans which just puts them into debt. 

 

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