Doing something, even if it fails to live up to expectations, isinvariably better than doing nothing
I like this sentence. Making a difference needs a beginning.
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was designed for early 20-century workforce needs,
It was the period of Cold War. I used to read a material, which said that to compete against Soviet, American government focused on engineering a lot. This sentence reminds me of Chinese education. Students experienced a similar time. The development of engineering boost industries.
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Are the schools perfect? No. But they are slowly improving. And they arecertainly better today than at any point in the past
How factors the author mentioned in the former paragraphs prove that schools are being better and better? I think those factors only indicate that the educational system worked well in the past. However, it doesn't mean that such system still works today or in the future.
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eachers in classrooms. For most of American history, teachersreceived no training at all, and hiring was a chaotic process in which the onlyconstant was patronage.
In the class EDUC 524, inquiry of educational issues, I learned that teacher profession has become a problem in American edu field. The main focus is about payment gap. Some schools in poor area cannot offer satisfactory salaries for qualified teachers, therefore they can only hire some non-professional teachers with less payment.
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it is the twofold challenge of complexity and scale. American schools arecharged with the task of creating better human beings. And they are expected todo so in a relatively consistent way for all of young people. It is perhaps thenation’s most ambitious collective project; as such, it advances slowly
Big visions leads to a lower speed of development. However, I am quite confused about this statement. Does the author want to change this situation? It seems that "twofold challenge of complexity and scale" is the root of edu system's disadvantages.
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innovatorsoutside the establishment have developed some simple solutions.
They can only deal with simple problems rather than profound issues, since they don't deeply get involved in edu field.
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the schools have slowlyand steadily improved
Slow and steady enhancement of a large project is usually hard to figure out, which reveals some wrong signals to outsiders. To find the progress, it requires researchers review the performance of schools.
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Everything in American education is broken.
Most people, including politicians, famous educators or journalists believe that this broken system need to be repaired.
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