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K-12 Education Challenges in the US

The document outlines a proposed Problem/Solution paper focusing on K-12 education in the United States, highlighting its perceived underdevelopment compared to other countries and challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. It critiques the lack of coherent education policies and common core standards, which hinder student motivation and performance. The author draws on personal experiences from Colombia and Venezuela to argue that a unified high-level curriculum could better engage students in the U.S.

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K-12 Education Challenges in the US

The document outlines a proposed Problem/Solution paper focusing on K-12 education in the United States, highlighting its perceived underdevelopment compared to other countries and challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. It critiques the lack of coherent education policies and common core standards, which hinder student motivation and performance. The author draws on personal experiences from Colombia and Venezuela to argue that a unified high-level curriculum could better engage students in the U.S.

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Pre-Proposal Topic

I am planning to do my Problem/Solution paper about the K-12 Education in the United

States. I will address this topic in different angles like how it is catalogued as undeveloped by

other countries as well as the American government, and how its development has been

challenged during and after the Covid 19 Pandemic. I believe the research about how it works

will be an easy task, it’s something I have personal experience with and it will be easy for me to

compare it to the educational system in other countries like Venezuela and Colombia. This is a

topic that must be addressed and acted on because it is the basis of the future of the American

people.

Marc Tucker, the president Emeritus and a distinguished senior fellow of the National

Center on Education and the Economy, affirmed that “We now have the worst-educated

workforce in the industrialized world.” He states that the United States lacks an education

system that is “coherent, in which each policy supports the other policies at every level of the

system, from the classroom to the top of the ministry of education.” The US lacks common core

standards that are visible in other schools in other countries. The Common Core State Standards

are being challenged by the unavailability of materials for students and the absence of a clear

curriculum of what the students are supposed to learn and what the teachers are supposed to

teach. From personal experience I believe that the attempt of the United States of creating an

equative environment for K-12 students has not been successfully achieved, limiting students

with higher academic abilities to perform at their top tier and not motivating other students to

perform and reach that same level.


I believe that the availability of choosing different leveled classes is limiting students

and allowing them to freely be mediocre. When I was in school in Colombia and Venezuela, all

students were required to take the same high leveled classes. This strategy forced all students to

be engaged in the same level of classes, making all students perform in a high-level environment.

Whereas, when I came to the United States, I witnessed the lack of motivation for student to

learn and how the system permitted this by allowing students who didn’t want to take hard

classes to just fill up their schedules with art classes, College-Prep classes, or physical education

classes.
Resources:

Tucker, M. (2022, March 31). Why other countries keep outperforming us in education (and how
to catch up) (opinion). Education Week. [Link]
why-other-countries-keep-outperforming-us-in-education-and-how-to-catch-up/2021/05

Harris, A. (2023, May 15). America isn’t ready for the school-funding crisis ahead. The Atlantic.
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