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Edited by Le Dustin xLil D: 12/29/2013 1:36:57 AM
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Centralizing education: good or bad?

Positive change to failing education systems

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Negative change to failing education systems

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NOTE: failing education systems = American education system [u]What is centralized education?[/u] Centralized education is a reformation that would take the funding and organization of schools out of the power of cities and towns and into the power of states. [u]What does it accomplish?[/u] It attempts to accomplish many things. One being the movement to stop the notion that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Most decentralized education fails because rich children live in rich towns and poor children live in poor towns and cities. This means that when parents pay taxes, poor children get stuck in poor schools and rich children get stuck in rich schools. This is inequality at its most dangerous level, because education is the most important mean of alleviating poverty. These kinds of schools also champion stronger education funding in general. So rich students also benefit by going to schools like this. [u]What is the opposition?[/u] Funding, of course. But education investments goes directly back into the economy. So yeah, you have to pay upfront, but you make your money back and more. No business man would pass up easy money making opportunities like this (money making opportunities in terms of economic growth, not scamming college students with loans). The difficulty in all of this is the fact that this generally stays as reformation movement only within states (logistically, students cannot travel hundreds of miles to school each day). Since it isn't a national movement, it makes it hard to get public support. But in the states that have implemented these kinds of reformations, there been huge payoffs and successes. Basically, do you think this reformation would good if it were implemented all over the America?
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  • Edited by Seggi: 12/31/2013 4:19:52 AM
    You're -blam!-ing insane if you think schools should be funded primarily based on the wealth of the surrounding area or how strong the smell of the old money is.

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    • Edited by MR E0S: 1/17/2014 6:16:21 PM
      Heres a reformation that should work. Ask a kid what he wants to be when he grows up. Teach them only what they need to know, to accomplish that goal and cut out the fat... unless they want the extra unnecessary education for that path. Ie. History class is a huge waste of time unless you want to work in politics, etc. 99% of people don't use math above a 6th grade level throughout their entire lifetime. No need to. Someone has to be paid to shove that unneccesary education onto students.

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      • Edited by cxkxr: 1/17/2014 8:30:12 PM
        Part of the reason our edu system is failing is bc of over centralization.

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      • Another thing that needs to go is he way how in the US, a school can have it's funding pulled if the students are not performing well enough. That's completely backwards from how it should be.

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        • Let me help you on this Dustin Failing education = American public school education Private schools are usually better, because they don't have to cater to the vast majority. Now the honors courses at public schools are better than at private. But the regular nonhonors course are leagues better at private. Most private schools even require a test to get into. So that stops most stupid people from getting in. Why is it like this? Because the public schools have to cater to the majority of people in the city. So you get all of the kids that want to not try and don't care. With private (generally) if you don't try, you can get kicked out or your parents don't want to pay the money for you to fail. So then you get sent to public.

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        • I'm in favor of it. If funding was centralized then poor districts would get the funding they need. Of course funding alone won't solve America's educational pitfalls, if you ask me one of the main issues with the American education system is anti-intellectualism and an over-emphasis on standardized testing.

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        • The educational system isn't failing due to lack of funding. [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/oecd-education-report_n_3496875.html]The United States spends more than other developed nations on its students' education each year, with parents and private foundations picking up more of the costs than in the past, an international survey released Tuesday found. Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests.[/url] The system is failing because of multiple causes. Not the least of which is the fact that the motivation of many educators and their students is sub-par. Focus on the self-image and confidence of the student has taken priority over performance. An "everyone passes" or "no one fails" mentality encourages and rewards mediocrity and discourages effort and excellence. High-schools have become a farm-league for college athletics which are then a farm-league for professional athletics. Parents also deserve some blame and responsibility. If they are not involved in the education or assignments of their children, then they are neglecting their role by assuming that "someone else is supposed to do that". While a standardized curriculum is fine, a federally funded and run program would be a terrible idea. Washington has a TERRIBLE track record of not tracking its money, overspending, and not caring about any outcomes or results. Healthcare.gov anyone?

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          • No more tests and no more homework!

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          • While funding is still a primary concern in regards to education, and there are plenty of examples where the resources that have been allocated to a particular school are vastly better than the neighboring school due to the higher income of the surrounding socioeconomic population. But with that aside, the true problem is within our broken philosophies of education, namely the educational practices found in urban schools. This is explored within the article [url=http://www.ithaca.edu/compass/pdf/pedagogy.pdf]The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching,[/url] written by Martin Haberman. I recommend reading this, because it breaks down what we as teachers are mostly concerned about when beginning our training and exploration into becoming a teacher ourselves.

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          • Name one thing the Feds run well and efficiently. - Der

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            • The more control a school system has at the local level, the more customizable it can be to fit the needs of the student body.

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              • I am skeptical of centralized control, because I believe programs are most effective and accountable to the people they affect when they are closer to those people. I have no real knowledge of how education funding works, and here is what makes sense to me. -Federal standards. A loose set of standards ensures that students across the nation meet minimum requirements. Any federal funding should be in the form of a block grant, rather than open-ended matching. -State oversight. The state should enforce the standards. It should also have the flexibility to experiment with its own programs, and provide assistance to low-income areas. -Local control. Schools are run and funded by their communities, and the administration are easily accessible to parents and teachers. I honestly think the problem is more about how we view education as a society.

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                • Well I'm not entirely sure how effective that would be, considering that I live in Illinois and we are one of the most corrupt and indebted states in the entire nation. Actually I correct myself, we are the SINGLE most financially unstable state in the nation. Our current deficit is $43.8 billion (mainly because of Chicago and all of the Liberal policy makers over there) so your proposal would certainly not work here. In other states perhaps but definitely not here.

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                • Edited by HM Rob: 12/31/2013 4:31:32 AM
                  I am 100% opposed to giving educational power to non-local government. Students who don't value education aren't going to automatically become motivated once their districts are more funded. Kids who live lives of crime won't just start studying because their teachers give them new equipment. The motivation to elevate yourself above a life of poverty through education is intrinsic. Any kid that goes from a chump to a scholar because they have more material is either an outlier or an entitled prick. Don't ask me or anyone else to pour money into a school system whose students care more about swag than their future.

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                  • Here is the problem: A system like this promotes teaching for a test rather than real-life situations.

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                    • Like Dutchy, I support federal education standards. I also support state-run funding, rather than local, but it needs to be done right. Being a former teacher who lives in California, I feel like I need to chime in here. In most, if not all states, public schools are funded by property taxes. In the late 70s, CA passed legislation [Proposition 13] that did two things: 1) Property taxes would be collected by Sacramento and funding for education would be handled by the state rather than local government 2) Property taxes would never increase I don't specifically have much of a problem with Part 1. If the revenue from property taxes on multi-million dollar homes will now be distributed to all public schools, instead of just the ones local to those wealthy areas, everybody wins. However, making it impossible to ever raise property taxes really fuc­ked us. Now, some of you may not know about the diversity of California's residents. Because of the sheer size of California, there's some pretty rural areas and a good number of low income and poor people. On the flip side, there's also outrageous millionaires with their mansions and garages full of Ferraris. In combination with these expansive homes, there was a huge real estate boom throughout most of SoCal in the 90's. For example, my parents bought their 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom, 3 car garage house for $250k in 1992. It is now worth over $1m. As a result of Prop 13, we couldn't take much advantage of this housing boom in order to better fund the schools. Instead of expanding their education and raising the quality, a great many CA schools have been cutting courses and programs. In the school district I taught in, which was in a pretty affluent area, the music, art, and science programs were funded entirely through a non-profit organization created specifically to raise money for the schools, instead of being funded by local property taxes which would have more than covered our bases.

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                      • Funding should be controlled by the state but not the content being taught.

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                      • It would probably be one good accomplishment on the to-do list we need for education reform, yes.

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                      • Edited by Aryan Barbarian : 12/31/2013 3:43:46 AM
                        Unions would -blam!- our economy. Only way this could work well would be to abolish unions and shift the students main focus to academics. Also [quote]A Forum CopDec 28 at 9:00:51 PM Permalink Here is the problem: A system like this promotes teaching for a test rather than real-life situations.[/quote]

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                      • Yes.

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                      • If it works, I'm all for it. I was home schooled, and my kids are going to be privately educated. It's the only way to get a decent education in poor areas.

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                        • Sounds like how it is in Canada, so sure. Also, allow religious schools to be funded by the government, like in Canada.

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                          • Dutchy supports federal education standards.

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                            • The only thing that can help the education system is an entire overhaul of it. As Osho said, many types of relationships in our lives have changed and diminished, but the relationship between a master and a disciple has entirely vanished. The most important part of schools really is the teacher, and teaching has become a rudimentary profession; the majority of teachers are in it simply to make money and have a decent life, not because they genuinely grasp what they are teaching and wish to enlighten others. The relationship between student and teacher should also change, in Plato's Academy for instance emphasis was put into discussion of ideas between pupils and teacher.

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                              • Bad. We have this in California thanks to prop 13. I'll revisit this thread tomorrow.

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                              • Edited by Arky: 12/29/2013 8:52:26 PM
                                Maybe we should not keep babying kids and letting them do whatever they want. People should not be allowed into high school unless they take a test, and pass it with like an 80%. They need to be severely punish for actual shit, instead of going soft on the big shit till they start cracking down on people who barely do anything. Maybe parents should stop getting mad at the teachers when the child acts like an idiot. And we need a standardized curriculum throughout the U.S.

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