Mike Rose & Lewis Black

These men have made me think about education differently. Being a student, I went to school to learn, I did the best I could to learn everything the teacher was teaching. I never questioned whether there was a problem with my school, or if a teacher was not doing their job correctly. A problem with education is the children, whether they learn the information or not. You can talk and teach to someone but its up to them if they want to learn it. Teaching should engage their attention and be interesting enough that the kids who are not fond of school can be interested and learn. Lewis Black made a comment that a school  was worth half a billion dollars. They say that schools do not get enough money and they are on a budget, yet this school is worth so much. The building is not a factor whether the education is good or not. He also states that our schools are broken and that it is not hard to see that. He is all for charter schools, they offer a great education, but for all the other kids in public schools. How can we make the education better? A lot of students go to public schools, we want our kids to achieve, but what does that mean? after viewing the reading, I believe that achievement has been lost, to me we cannot rely on our "high test scores" to prove that our education is getting better. And that teachers are effective, you cannot judge the greatest of students and teachers on a test, though it may look good on paper, does it really make the students feel good knowing all they have to do is pass a test? students need to be challenged. Engaging and challenging, but of course the first thing to do to make education better is to figure out the big problems and solve them, not put a band aid on it. Like Mike says, if you fire 10% of the bottom and replace with the top 10%, will you have to do that every year? that to me is just a band aid. This just makes me think what is really wrong, and what could possibly be done about it.