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This presentation highlights a few of the major reasons why the public school system in the United States needs to change.
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The United States is in Need for CHANGE in
EDUCATION
Why Change?
Texas ranked 39th in public education in the nation and still lagging behind much of the country
Source: Daily Texan 2009
FIRST THINGS FIRST, Texas!
Texas is dead last in the percentage of residents with their high school diploma
Near last in SAT scores Source: The Texas Education 2008
What does Texas need to do?
Texas public schools have three goals:
Prepare students:
1. for college2. the workforce 3. participation in a democratic society
The Daily Texan 2009
What’s the Problem
So What’s the Problem???
Goals cannot be accomplished with cheap forms of education.
Daily Texan 2008
More
money for schools is a key to success.
What are other countries doing?
GLOBALLY
Rapidly expanded their educational systems over the last 50 years
Since 1970s, the education system has declined in U.S.
Our high school graduation rates are lower today than they ever before
Get Smart- Jim Pinto’s Connection for Growth & Success
Europeans and Asians
Nationally at
a Glance
Source: Examiner.com
China/South Korea vs. United States
China/South Korea schools graduating engineers in record numbers
America's U.S. engineering graduates declined by 20 percent between 1985 and 2000
Source: Epoch Times Toronto Staff
Less than 40% of U.S. students take a science course
more rigorous than general biology
18% of U.S. students take advanced classes in physics, chemistry or biology
Only 45% of U.S. students take math coursework beyond two years of algebra and one year of geometry
50% of all college freshmen require remedial coursework
Two Million Minutes a Division of Broken Pencil Productions
Americans would be considered advanced if they finished trigonometry in high school
Most Japanese are doing trig in the tenth grade, and working their way through
basic calculus by the twelfth.
Source: sekicho
In 9 more seconds…
Every nine seconds in America a student becomes a drop out.
Whatever It Takes: 12 Communities Reconnecting Out-of-Youth Schools
Why Drop Out? 47% said classes were not interesting
43% missed too many days to catch up
45% entered high school poorly prepared by their earlier schooling
69% said they were not motivated to work hard
35% said they were falling
Copyright article 2006 Barbara Pytel. All Rights Reserved.
“If I Drop Out…” unemployed
in prison
living in poverty
receiving government assistance
less healthy
divorced
single parents
Copyright article 2006 Barbara Pytel. All Rights Reserved.
……in the United States
•Only 2/3 of all students who enter 9th grade graduate with a regular high school diploma four years later
•Drop outs cost our nation $260 billion dollars
Whatever It Takes: 12 Communities Reconnecting Out-of-Youth Schools
a bachelor's degree earns an average of $51,554
a high school diploma earns $28,645
a high school dropout earns $19,169
POVERTYWhat does the research
say? In 2007, 18% of all children
ages 0–17 lived in poverty, an increase from 17 percent in 2006.
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
In 2004 the American government defined poverty as a family of four living with an income below $18,810
Copyright 2005 Ofer Shoshani
A total of 13.3 million children, or 1 in 6 of all children in American, live in poverty. Of these children half 5.8 million live in extreme poverty
•
7out of 10 poor children are in working families where someone works full or part time
Poverty by Race
Poverty Rate
Millions in Poverty
Hispanic 21.5% 9.9 million
African Americans
24.5% 9.2 million
White (non-Hispanic)
8.2% 16.0 million
Asian Americans 10.2% 1.3 million
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
According to Balfanz (2006)
• It is often possible to identify as early as sixth grade up to half of the students who lack effective interventions and who will not graduate
• By the time students enter the ninth grade, you can identify about 80% of that population who lack effective interventions and who will not graduate
Source: Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC)
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”
-President Obama
That Means… Students need more
motivation Students need teachers who
care
Put your self in the students’ shoe!
Teachers are the single most important resource to a child’s learning.
-President Obama
Here’s what we can look forward to
“reform America’s public schools to deliver a 21st Century education that will prepare all children for success in the new global workplace.”
-President Obama
TEACHERS
Get ready!
Get set!
Let’s create life-long learners with long-term goals
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