Why The Education System Is Failing America | CNBC Marathon

I think we can all agree the schools need to incorporate financial education all throughout high school.

As a teacher (not the American curriculum) I'd like to say that we shouldn't be sending children homework that they can't do by themselves! If students are unable to understand what is coming home with them there are huge problems with the programmes/teaching!

I read a story of an Indian IT guy who spent five years working in the USA. He had a daughter aged 10 who was proficient in math when she left India. She did well in math in her America school. When she returned to India aged 15 she was given a placement exam at her new school to see which grade she should placed in. She came home crying to her parents as she was two years behind in math compared to the other 15 year old girls!

I find it interesting that student behavior is not being addressed here. Teachers are expected to teach much more than subject content today. Emotional, social curriculum are a large part of the day. Addressing student violence in the classroom is the largest part of teacher/student intetaction. Teachers must be therapists and policemen to get through the day.

What most people don't understand is that basic education is 80% culture. You can't just write a list of things to learn, you need to design an engaging environment for people to receive information and play out tests. You also need to include the parents of children to make them understand and play in key of the curriculum.

As someone who grew up doing Common Core— It just took time away from learning things that were actually useful in class, it frustrated the teachers attempting to teach it, and it cost the school a lot of money to get all the printed math books and other Common Core materials for essentially no benefit to the students. I can’t recall a single time Common Core was spoken of positively by the teachers or the other students.

I'm from Japan. I used to get moral classes for 12 years from elementary school to high school. I realised American schools never teach children how to take care of things around them. There are trash all over the place, there are people saying hash words to others, and they never feel guilty about it. I was shocked. This is due to education. Recently activists like transgenders, black, feminism, fat embrace, really stands out as a representation of this country. I have seen videos where they are even abusing children through their own "opinions". I apologise if I offend anyone in advance, but I'm taking current western situations as the result of lack of fundamental education. Just having creative opinions and having opinions with the fundamental educational knowledge is never the same. People can be creative but resulting bad influence to others. The education knowledge has been passed down through people. People here does not have perspective of respecting towards things that have been passed down. Schools are not only just for taking math, language, science, politics and history. Creative thinking classes are great, but without morals and manners, people not only fail to take care of themselves but also others, resulting conflicts. The most important thing as a human being is to continue improving ourselves for the best life, continue supporting each others for their best life, and to make the world better place. This is not the fault of these activists. This is the fault of country's education system. When the education fails, the country corrupts.

I'm a second year teacher in Las Vegas. That first year I worked harder than I had at any point in my entire previous career. I used to be a programmer for 30 years making 6 figures for most of that time. I quit after saving up a retirement nest egg and started teaching because I had always wanted to give kids the advice and wisdom of my experience that I wish I had had when I was in high school. I'm going to keep at it for another couple of years and hope it gets easier.

Lady in video is correct. Teachers literally have the future in front of them every day, yet only see themselves as over glorified babysitters and parents see them the same way. Raising well educated humans starts with the parents:)

I've taught the A-levels (UK) and the Florida/Michigan curriculum at international schools. The US has a lot less focus than the UK. Americans are confused about what "raising standards" really entails. Foreign curriculum pushes students to master a smaller set of skills with smaller textbooks and more essay writing whereas the US focuses on a wider range of concepts with superficial multiple choice polling. Often this leads to foreign students having mastery and being well spoken about foundational concepts while American students win trivia night but can't really explain why the know something.

I'm an engineer and that first example of common core is similar to how I do math in my head. Some people actually understand math and others just plug in equations or follow procedures. There are times for both methods, not everyone goes into STEM and really it is about results. Keep what works and use what works best for you.

I was a university supervisor for student teachers for 22 years. I taught (beginning in secondary school and then moving to college and university levels) for 53 years. Huge changes in education. Expectations were lowered to meet the bottom of the barrel learners. Cooperative learning teamed the brightest with the weakest----and both groups were the losers. Behavioral and disciplinary problems abound. When the support personnel---social workers, psychologists, aides, nurses, etc.----outnumber the teaching staff, then something is wrong. It's all about the HOME LIFE!!! When parents take an interest and are actively involved in their children's education, that message of "We care" is received by children. When parents don't care if the children even attend school, know how to hold a pencil (by age 5), know basic colors/numbers/the alphabet, then that child is already behind the learning curve. It's also a matter of values----so many people don't care about education; rather, it's drugs, alcohol, designer clothing, blingy jewelry, and hair and nail appointments that are far more important than schooling. Standards keep being lowered; everything must be geared to social justice and equity----well, it's a proven fact that no matter how much money is poured into education the results continue to decline at a dramatic pace. All the money in the world isn't going to fix a society that doesn't value education. All the money in the world isn't going to fix broken homes or homes where baby daddies are the norm. All the money in the world isn't going to fix parental apathy and neglect. All the money in the world isn't going to change the social promotion reality that sees students reading on the 5th grade level and graduating from high school. Sweeping changes are needed in America's schools----and not dumbing down of the curriculum and the including of every fad and trend that administrators endorse. Our educational system has been failing for years, and right now it's on life support. I don't see things getting any better anytime soon. Common sense and standards went out the window long ago. That's why the smart money is removing children from public schools and placing them in a learning environment where they are expected to be active learners and not passive occupants of seats.

I was an an honor student with an A+ in calculus. I had such a difficult time helping my kid with her common core math homework. I only confused her more because I tried teaching her the traditional way but she was required to show her work the common core way. It was frustrating. I took her out of public school and now she is thriving in homeschool.

My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in the America..

The problem has never been the method, it’s the anti-intellectual attitudes, the horrible relationship to failure, the socioeconomic discrepancies that impact learning, the conflation of rigor and private education, horrendous educator salaries, property taxes and “good schools,” gaslighting, gatekeeping, and the politicization, commodification, and censorship of curricula.

What I found most incredible was that they developed the curriculum, and then rolled it out immediately. They didn't bother to do trial runs to see how it would fly. No surprise that it crashed. Reminds me of New Math in the 60's and No Child Left Behind in the 2000's. You want better student outcomes, you need to have continuous research in what works best, and then actually teach it to the teachers. Raising output expectations (standards) isn't going to automatically raise output results.

One thing I also noticed during my time in HS was that all the counselors and most teacher PUSHED going to college. I never got asked what I wanted in life or how I was doing or if I liked my classes it was always “this class is eligible for college credit” “this class won’t get you ready for college” “what college you want to go to?” “Community college?! NO! 4 year colleges are much better”.

I’ll never forget when one of my teachers was subtly discussing the pay teachers get years ago, and she mumbled “I’m basically working for free”. Kinda broke me at the moment not goin lie.

Many reasons why: 1. Politician changes in every state, cutting funds and programs affect students. 2. Administration and Teachers shortages. 3. Lack of Emotional and Mental support in schools (again shortages or limitations in school guidance counselors and school psychologist 4. No fun educational field trips and fun learning activities (again lack of fundings). 5. Overcrowded schools unbalanced student: teacher ratio. 6. Routinely rigorous work and no time or space for creativity (again overcrowded schools). 7. No proper or disciplinary action taken (ineffective detention and no sense of giving students responsibility).8.Schools and teachers too busy to even recognize students achievements.

Teachers, INCLUDING early childhood teachers, are not paid according to their worth and fully supported by administrators. Can’t support a classroom full of children without fully a supported teacher!