The Education System

The Education System

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The Education System

Anna Leon-Guerrero argued that the current education system was appropriate in indoctrinating children to a certain way of life. However¸ she also proposed that the education system lacked the ability to prepare students to maximize their skills and experiences in the industrial condition. Her analysis of the education system concluded that a very small percentage of the academic instruction could be implemented in the real life situation (Leon-Guerrero, 2014). Most of what was learned in school did not reflect what was being practiced in the economy. One of her ways the education system could support the economic agenda is by updating the curriculum. The author recommended that the United States had to keep up with the global standards of education. She noted that across the states, an obsolete curriculum was being used to teach the children. This outdated curriculum exposed the children to insufficient and inappropriate content that made them less competent to fit in and work productively in the economy (Leon-Guerrero, 2014). The education should also be structured and perceived as a means of upward mobility rather than a means of perpetuating inequality. Within the United States, people study and attaining educational qualifications with the intention of evading poverty. People who cannot access quality education end up marginalized and poor. This is a destructive notion for the economic growth and development of the United States as a significant number of citizens who failed to attend elementary school and college cannot contribute towards the economy. The same is also true for gender inequality. The education system, through the testing processes creates a series of tracking records that separate bright students from ordinary ones. This separation eventually translates into occupational gaps that ensure a small percentage assume prestigious vocations while the majority become unskilled or semi-skilled workers.

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Leon-Guerrero, A. (2014). Social problems: Community, policy, and social action. Thousand oaks: Pine forge press.

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