The Issues of Public Education in US

Science education must be more practical rather than school teaching and students must experience how the science works in the outside world and try to solve practical science problems in the real world and must continually update skills and experience as the changes in science field is rapid. That is the Science curriculum and teaching practices and assessment must be radically overhauled.

This is also applicable to Mathematics education to raise the Mathematics education quality and standard in US public education system. In addition, in US in Science education the teaching of creationism in science must be resolved more than adequately to improve the quality of Science education and stress the importance of evolution theory in Science compared to creationism as creationism do not have substantial scientific evidence to be taught in Science classes in US public education system.

In summary the US Public education system have considerable issues that affects the quality of US Public education system as discussed above. It must resolve these issues more than adequately and must continually reform the structure of US Public education system to have a comparable quality with advanced countries and to satisfy the needs of a rapidly changing world. There are problems arising from segregation and in equality in education and disadvantage in the US public education system, which if not addressed adequately may produce a high proportion of students do not have the adequate skills or fall behind other students and they may become unemployable and cause social problems and may also cause social instability in the future. That is if access ability is not addressed in the US education system and remedial action is not taken in time it may contribute to a significant minority student groups failing to meet the skill necessary to survive in the rapidly changing world of work.

In US public education home schooling is an important factor at least in some states and these states must consider the negative impacts of home schooling and provide adequate safe guards to ensure the quality of home schooling and monitor progress continually to upgrade and to reconsider home schooling if they produce poor educational outcomes.

As discussed above it is certain that the US public education has several issues affecting its quality in a negative manner. It must reform the public education system in funding, the role of charter schools, role of home schools, degree of decentralization and control and curriculum issues, hours of education and flexibility, teaching methods, teacher quality issues, standardized tests, regulation of private school system particularly in parochial private school system, cost of higher education and access by minority student groups, role of business in education to improve its quality of public education system in US.