My View on the Education Debate: From a Korean's perspective
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
October 21, 2008
Long Island University, C. W. Post
October 21, 2008
On Tuesday, October 21st, at 7 pm, Teachers College will host "Education and the Next President," a debate between Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Lisa Graham Keegan, education advisor to Republican nominee John McCain.
Today’s class started with watching education debate between Obama and McCain advisors. After watching the debate for about 1 hour, we had a class discussion.
The topic was about rewarding on students’ achievement, standard test, and investing more money in the education etc. The most shocking thing to me during class tonight was the US also experiences the same problems as we Korean have with education. For example, “Should we reward teachers on students’ achievement with incentive?” How do we judge that students achieve or not in the classroom? Just academic records? Never! Meeting goals? And then, which goals? Let’s say if students achieve their goals, and then how do we measure students’ achieving? Just “pass” might not be enough.
These are all educational topic to cover repeatedly over time in Korea, particularly, public education. Moreover, when one classmate, Celena told us that she believe SAT writing is not helpful for writing in college, I couldn’t believe it. This is because a few Korean top universities have just started to take a writing exam as a college entrance exam, although there was heated debate about this.
Most Korean immigrant families I know said to me that they came to US for their children’s education. Their children go to public school now. What would they say about this situation where US education experience difficulties in dealing with the problem which are the same like Korea have?
Today’s class started with watching education debate between Obama and McCain advisors. After watching the debate for about 1 hour, we had a class discussion.
The topic was about rewarding on students’ achievement, standard test, and investing more money in the education etc. The most shocking thing to me during class tonight was the US also experiences the same problems as we Korean have with education. For example, “Should we reward teachers on students’ achievement with incentive?” How do we judge that students achieve or not in the classroom? Just academic records? Never! Meeting goals? And then, which goals? Let’s say if students achieve their goals, and then how do we measure students’ achieving? Just “pass” might not be enough.
These are all educational topic to cover repeatedly over time in Korea, particularly, public education. Moreover, when one classmate, Celena told us that she believe SAT writing is not helpful for writing in college, I couldn’t believe it. This is because a few Korean top universities have just started to take a writing exam as a college entrance exam, although there was heated debate about this.
Most Korean immigrant families I know said to me that they came to US for their children’s education. Their children go to public school now. What would they say about this situation where US education experience difficulties in dealing with the problem which are the same like Korea have?
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