Education Issues

Education Issues

Education Issues

Below are just a few of the leading American education issues that are constantly being debated nowadays.

First, this question: should there be a national standard for graduating high school students? Should students have to pass a rigorous test in order to graduate? Some people say that a test is an objective measurement of how well a student knows certain material; others argue that some students don’t “test well,” and that grades, schoolwork and teachers should determine whether or not a particular student graduates, and not a standardized test. Others say that many standardized tests are inherently biased.

Another educational debate rages over vouchers. A school voucher is when the government pays part or all of a student’s private school tuition. Let’s say it costs a city $10,000 to educate a child per year. With a school voucher, the government would pay ten-thousand dollars of tax money for a child to go to a certain private school instead of giving that money to the public school the child would otherwise attend. Some people insist that this is only fair; if parents work hard to pay taxes, why shouldn’t their tax dollars go to the school of their choice? Other people …

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Working Parents Look No Further! Great Scholarship Opportunity For You!

Working Parents Look No Further! Great Scholarship Opportunity For You!

Working Parents Look No Further! Great Scholarship Opportunity For You!

To be a parent and pursue education at the same time is a challenge of its own, obviously.A You have the bills to pay, childcare, transportation costs, and the chore of making sure you keep your job.A Certainly, these are big shoes to fill and there probably are not any extra funds left to set aside for bettering your future.A You know this situation, right?A You have thought about college and scholarships for your kid’s future, but, with your current earnings, you know this is going to be a problematic goal.A Try flipping your concern for the child’s future education around, maybe switch the focus of education around to yourself.A That’s right, perhaps you can earn your own college degree!

Given the circumstances, no doubt you have thought about improving your career.A You want to propel your current educational barriers past that of an entry level minimum wage job.A Sure, you can get by, just barely, by cashing that minimum wage paycheck each week – but you want more, indeed.A Are you thinking this all sounds silly since you are a single parent and have virtually no extra money left?A On your income and budget, how on earth would you …

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