Current Connection 1.2

In Mike Rowe’s article entitled “Mike Rowe Works,” posted on Profoundly Disconnected, he argues that being thirty grand in the hole starting your career is ridiculous.

 

According to “One. Trillion. Dollars.,” conducted by Mike Rowe, a well known TV celebrity, found that, we’ve confused the cost of an education with the cost of a diploma.

After going to school, a prison for high school teenagers, for so long and working so hard to finally get to your career, we should not have to be in the hole at all.

What is so wrong with this situation? Were required to make good grades, go to school for so long after going to school for twelve years to start out with, to get to our career, which helps us in no way because we are already so much in the hole working dose not make a difference because we have to pay off college debt.


Glenn Harlan Reyonlds, representative of USA TODAY, further notes, “And, in fact, for some people, it may be actively damaging.”

Debt is hard for anyone, debt is even worse to deal with for those who are fresh out of college, just starting their career, process of buying their first house (maybe?), and who is still trying to get used to the responsibilities of an adult in the real world.

Does this apply to everyone? Yes, believe it or not, a good chuck of the American population is in this exact situation.

Reyonlds further acknowledges that “even a mediocre college degree is a credential, but it’s an expensive one in time and money.”

For example, my mother is still paying on her college debts; her debts are not even half way paid.

My question would be…  Shouldn’t there be a different way to do this? To get a good education, end up with a good career, and with no lingering debt?

Current Connection 1.1

In Diane Ravitch’s article entitled “School Reform’: A Failing Grade,” she argues that American students have never been good at taking international tests.

According to “International Test Scores”, conducted by 4brevard.com, an educational website, found that, elementary schools scored “average” but high school is a different story. This website states that high school students scored either basic or below in 2011.
 For example, according to Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY, out of all of the high school students that took the ACT in the year of 2013, only 43% of them earned a score that indicates that will succeed in the first year of college.

What is the problem? I believe schools don’t have the right kind of classes preparing us for what life has to offer in the long run.

 Mary Beth Marklein, a Representative of US TODAY further notes,  “Average scores on the nation's most widely used college entrance exams barely budged this year, raising anew concerns that today's high school graduates will be unprepared to compete in a global marketplace.”

 Schools should be taking automatically talking action based on these test scores; test scores that can and will shape the future of high school students, not only in America, but all around the world.

Has my school started taking action? Yes, they have, as they should! We actually have a full class devoted to preparing us to make a better score on the ACT test. It is actually called “ACT prep.”

 Marklein ended her passage with a quote from the College Board, stating that “...Millions of skilled jobs left unfilled here at home, it is essential to ensure that our students are prepared for college and careers.”

For example, students in America should have a fair opportunity of getting local jobs, just as every other country does.

My question would be… are schools putting off the need for more test prep just because it would cause more work for themselves?