Spartan Spirit - Best for the West - Episode 8 - The School System

Ever heard anyone say?:

·       Too many modern day kids can’t read or do math.

·       The school system is broken.

·       Teachers do too much administration.

·       Modern teaching methods don’t work and we should go back to the old ways of teaching.

·       Standardized testing is a problem.

·       There’s not enough discipline in schools.

Basically, no one is happy about the schooling system.

The bigger picture issues in schooling include.

·       The curriculum

·       The quality of teacher, which is affected by:

o   Pay

o   Job satisfaction

o   Education levels of the teacher

o   Workload

·       Teaching methods

o   Rote vs inquiry model

o   Phonics vs whole word

o   Streaming

·       Discipline in schools

·       Funding mechanisms

Sources:

https://suny.buffalostate.edu/news/1871-2021-short-history-education-united-states

Oxford’s World in Data

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Natasha Bita of the The Australian, a newspaper, “Opposition blames “loose learning’’ for school struggles”

View of Strategies for attracting and retaining educators: What does the evidence say? (asu.edu)

https://gpseducation.oecd.org/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131911.2019.1705247

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988437/  

https://www.smh.com.au/national/want-to-know-why-our-schools-keep-lagging-the-world-s-best-20220216-p59wtq.html ,

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/ESF01/ESF01.pdf

https://www.oecd.org/education/school-resources-review/TheFundingofSchoolEducation_summaryENG_combine-min.pdf

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/no-child-left-behind-an-overview/2015/04 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/202211/standardized-testing-and-the-destruction-education

Canadian Journal of School Psychology 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0829573507301038

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/no-child-left-behind-an-overview/2015/04

A ‘Science of Reading’ Revolt Takes on the Education Establishment - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

https://ed.stanford.edu/news/learning-math-without-fear?newsletter=true

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-math-education-in-the-u-s-doesn-t-add-up/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-013-9269-9

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X19848720

https://theconversation.com/if-australian-schools-want-to-improve-student-discipline-they-need-to-address-these-5-issues-187993  

https://theconversation.com/is-this-really-fair-how-high-school-students-feel-about-being-streamed-into-different-classes-based-on-ability-180965

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000038691

https://www.oneducation.net/no-07_april-2020/the-trouble-of-western-education/