Education

Education I believe that a national curriculum would be a bad idea for the purpose of education is not to create a group of drones around the country. The purpose of education is to teach students information pertinent to the region they live in and show them how they can improve on already existing relations. I will draw upon the readings of Michael Apple and Lisa Delpit to help develop an understanding of this issue. The reasons that support my stance are as follows. One reason is that by having a national curriculum, the country is just standardizing education even further. We all know that standardized testing is not the greatest measurement of a student’s capabilities and by having a set standard curriculum for the country, it is almost as if we (as teachers) are giving up on teaching. With a national curriculum, a monkey could walk into a classroom and hand out the assignments and we won’t need well developed teachers. A second reason that goes along with the first is that we will lose all of the good teachers that we have in our school systems. Most of these high-quality teachers students, curriculum, national, education, should, because, teachers, feel, educators, apple, about, having, being, same, reason, just, time, school, make, learn, schools, problems, people, one, knowledge, educational, don’t, country, americans, way, teacher, teach, taught, society, say