...the challenges that America is facing in the race to be first in the world regarding the importance of obtaining a higher education for a better workforce of the nation. The rapid increase in globalization of the 21st century has completely changed the course of the world allowing a vast open playing field and competition from every direction. Foreign students have gained access to the American workplace due to outsourcing and breached the job market for American workers who lack the necessary skillset and education qualifications. While the worldly competition in education has drastically increased, President Obama has addressed a goal for the nation by 2020-for America to be top in the highest proportion of college graduates of the world. One of the greatest challenges that plays as an obstacle for this goal is the problematic college access. On the contrary, Germany has found that college education is not a necessity at all and has successfully maintain a low unemployment rate. However, the economy and government of the United States is structured very differently, and the framework of Obama’s plan proved that a stronger educated population is directly correlated with a stronger nation itself. History and Theoretical Framework For much of America’s history, a college education was not needed to make a decent living as the difference between the average wages of high school and college graduates was very minor. After WWII, however, the growth of education started to move in...
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...Education is arguably the main factor for social mobility. The higher the level of education attained, the more respect you have. It also provides for you financially and provides a better life those receiving plentiful amounts. For immigrants coming into America, having an education puts you ahead of a majority of the immigrant population and makes you a more likely candidate for better earning jobs. Education should influence immigration policy because of the overall benefits our country receives. With more educated immigrants comes more job competition, skilled workers from low-productivity countries to high-productivity nations increases the incomes of people in America, and education is a needed expense because educating younger immigrants...
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...Examination in China, America and Russia. Examination in China, America and Russia. Since ancient times, examination is a way to test person's knowledge, intelligence, ability, personality and moral. It is a measure of human knowledge and intelligence methods used hitherto created, the more objective, fair, accurate, and efficient way. Therefore, when the most important meaning to assess people's knowledge, and ability to master the quality of education and learning ability, skill levels and educational institutions and to develop good quality and ability of personnel activity is used in the examination. So as a student take the exam is very normal thing that looks like people eat food. But different countries have different ideas for the purpose of students take exam. Such as, in some country exam just for help student to study, in another country exam is good way to test student who is good or bad student. Along with education become more and more popular and globalization, many people pay attention to exam and people want know more information about how examination effect students in higher education. From the research is studying of the examination different between China, America and Russia in higher education. In China, Chinese education is Exam-oriented education, which means to meet the entrance examination for the purpose of educational philosophy and education. It is use to test the quality of the school enrollment rate the level of education, teachers and students'...
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...Bibliographie Bibliographie sélective II. Higher Education Publishing Organisations Organismes publiant sur l’enseignement supérieur IAU/UNESCO Information Centre on Higher Education Bibliographic Database on Higher Education HEDBIB HEDBIB 1 IAU Ge Bibliographic Database on Higher Education HEDBIB The International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB) is an integrated database including over 25.000 references, from 1988 onward, on higher education systems, administration, planning and policy,costs and finances, evaluation of higher education, issues related to staff and students, cooperation, mobility and equivalences of degrees, curricula, teaching methods and learning processes. It is available in the UNESCO CD-ROM “UNESCO DATABASES” (current ed: 1999). List of Participants in the HEDBIB database International Association of Universities (IAU) IAU/UNESCO Information Centre on Higher Education Coordinating Agency and Bibliographical Reference Service Elzbieta Karwat - Head Librarian Unesco House, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris cedex 15, France karwat.iau@unesco.org http://www.unesco.org/iau ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (ERIC) 1100 West Street, Second Floor, Laurel, Maryland 20707-3598, USA http://www.gwu.edu/~eriche UNESCO Headquarters in Paris 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07, France s.fernandez-lauro@unesco.org http://www.unesco.org UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) Str Stirbei Voda 39, R-70732...
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...decline of America, I disagree with that belief. I believe that due to countries growing quicker today that we should stand behind our advancing allied countries more now than ever. The rise of the rest will be beneficial for the United States because if we invest in the countries that are rising, we will gain profit and increase the relationships of our societies; having strong foreign affairs is very important to the future of any country. Another reason I don’t view America as decreasing influence as a world superpower is due to our higher level in education. America houses some of the top colleges in the world, offering incredibly intelligent graduates to help support the view of America; how can we be declining if the current generation is well-educated and trained to advance their country? Other countries, such as China and India, seem to have surpassed...
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...American citizens. During the campaign period, national conventions, and presidential debates, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney discussed why both are qualified and best fit to become President of the United States. Many topics such as education, foreign policy issues, health care, and economy and trade are elaborated during the campaigning period, the conventions, and the debates. According to multiple media sources such as CNN and Fox News, the 2012 presidential election is in a dead heat. Governor Romney revealed qualities that would make him a good President. Governor Romney’s economic policy is what a fragile America needs and his ability to recognize the danger of the growing debt. Governor Romney possesses great knowledge of the current budget mess and yet has an optimistic view of America’s future. That is the change I want for a better America. A strong education system is essential for a better America. Currently, the education system is in a weakened and unstable state. President Obama’s failures to strengthen the education system and prevent the rising cost in education, has forced the hand of Americans to vote for a better-fit candidate. Both candidates agree that more teachers and a better education system...
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...and U.S.A’s Education Policy Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Introduction Education policy refers to the guidelines and principles that the government put in place as laws in order to govern the activities around education systems in their country (Dewey, 2012). These policies are meant to be implemented in all the stages of education that is from early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, university and college education, graduate, adult education and job training. The areas that the government focuses on while formulating and implementing education policy include school choice, class size, school size, teacher education, school privatization, teacher pay and certification, curricular content, teaching methods, school infrastructure and education requirements (Dewey, 2012). It also encompasses the values and missions that schools aim to uphold and achieve respectively. A country’s academic success is greatly determined by the kind of education policies that have been formulated and implemented by its government (Ravitch, 2012). Hence this is a very vital factor for citizens to consider when they are obligated to vote in a new government. They tend to look at the most beneficial and favorable education policies that are going to be for the good of the country. Politicians also prioritize this factor when they are campaigning for office. This essay aims at comparing two countries’ education policies that...
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...the way through their twenties. Emerging Adults are individuals that are no longer children, yet have not reached complete adulthood yet (Jensen, 200). The expectations of teenagers, in America, graduating from high school have changed over the few centuries. Initially, Americans teenagers exiting high school were expected to join the workforce, get married and have children, and all before their mid twenties. Now there is a new grace period, called “emerging adulthood”. This period of time, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, has become a time where young men and women are expected to search for their own identities, continue their education, find a suitable career, then settle down into a married life and have children of their own if they so choose. There is still a wide variety in difference in expectations in America, especially when considering the social, ethnical and financial background that these young individuals come from. Children from more affluent families are likely to go to a college or university right after high school, where as children from less financially stable backgrounds are likely to join the military in order to afford schooling, or head straight into manual labor type jobs, in hopes of going to college later on. Argentina, much like America, is a western industrialized culture that shares a lot of commonalities with its expectations of emerging adults, though there are several cultural differences. Americans tend to place more...
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...be the public education systems of Germany and the United States. The issue that countries around the world are beginning to face as nations continues to advance technologically, is having enough educated citizens to support these advancements and fill the already available jobs requiring degrees. In this day and age, College is becoming a permanent reminder financially to many Americans, leading to years of loans haunting the graduates. This economic setback forces many to enter the workforce out of high school, working entry level jobs and failing to quell the need for educated workers. In Germany, the free advanced education approach has crafted an education system many feel America should...
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...Education and Poverty in America Historically, education has been considered the “great socioeconomic equalizer” of American society, allowing all children an equal opportunity to succeed. Furthermore, a high-quality education is considered both a human and civil right however, educational experiences for children living in poverty continue to be substantially separate and unequal. In the United States, poverty is a common social, political and economic issue that has troubled Americans for years. Despite being better off today nearly 50 million Americans, including more than half of which are children currently live in poverty. In his poem, “Cause I Ain’t Got a Pencil,” Joshua T. Dickerson describes the damaging effects poverty has on...
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...Abstract Universities and College campus are a hot topic because every year they attract and house hundreds of thousands of not always quite mature teens and young adults. The perception is that the Campus Carry Law will not be very effective and could quite possibly back fire on innocent faculty and student body members, victimizing anyone who may come in contact with one of these radically violent individuals intent on harming people. (2015) Arrigo Bruce and Acheson Austin Contemporary Justice Review, Concealed carry bans and the America college Campus. Statistically numbers are down when looking back over the past couple decades. Since 1990 there have been 143 school shooting related instances and over 450 deaths and injuries. (2006) Norton Elia and Jennifer Ansier, USA Today, Behind the Bloodshed. The very fact any person could possibly be murdered or injured by another person at any moment in America has always been known and terrifies the majority of citizens. Like many Americans I have to ask, what we can do as a Nation, one unit, to better insure the public safety of every individual. To understand this problem we must go to the root. The American System and its five sets of institutions which ultimately control American way of life. The five institutions are legal, political, economic, educational and sociocultural. All of which too often combine to leave our efforts short of progression. Introduction The issue with gun laws and the legal system have to do with the...
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...Struggle For Education Education is something that’s highly sought after by many. If someone receives an education, endless opportunities are opened up to them. Thankfully, in America, education is readily available to most. Potential students in other countries aren’t so lucky. In America, people struggled for years to get an education, and in some places that struggle is still ongoing. One of the struggles for education in America was that of the African-Americans. Back when America was young, African-Americans were held as slaves. Thanks to a set of laws called “The Slave Codes”, it was illegal to teach slaves how to read or write. The white people’s reasoning behind these laws was that once their slaves were able to read or write, they would quickly become unhappy with their condition and become “unmanageable”. An...
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...United States of America. Today, immigration has become such a large topic that policies, our countries economy, and even the outcome of elections are heavily weighed around the issue. The problem that arises from the situation isn’t the fact that it is causing a hardship for our country, the problem stems from the ignorance of majority of the people here in America that don’t understand the positive and important role immigrants play on our countries continuous growth. For the longest I always thought that the only immigrants coming into the country were those of lower educational, occupational, and English proficiency status and as a country “we are now getting the poorest of each race”. I attribute this mindset to the fact that I grew up misinformed about immigration because whenever the topic was brought up or mentioned, it seemed to always focus around illegal immigrants coming from Mexico supposedly stealing jobs from others, and around Asian immigrants coming to the country with no intention on learning English. With these two instances being the focal point of all conversations I was rather a part of our witnessed based around immigration, it’s understandable why I, and many others had/have negative thoughts towards immigration. After reading Immigrant America, reviewing reports by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), and in class discussions, my entire perspective on immigration based around education, occupations, and English proficiency in America has changed...
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...Background, Education, and The Truth Barber, Mantsios, and Tannen are three authors who all talk about the problems of access to education, the purposes of education and how important it is and the impact of class as well as gender in the classroom. The successfulness of people very much bases on their social background. This is just a small part of the problems that have been discussed. This type of problem is very socializing and important; furthermore it might become issues that have big impact to social life other than just to individual. How people think and react may bring us a brighter view and better result for the future. One issue is that lower class classrooms do not have enough money to provide proper education. Therefore, schools look to advertisers for funding, which allow companies to target young students. In “The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?”, Barber was giving us ideas of how it happened and effected the future of lower class people and America as a whole. The main point of his essay was about the equality of education and how women and African Americans just got the right to have an equal education. Barber was succeeding in how he got the reader along the way. His text was really easy to read and understand. He used a lot of personal evidence to tell his ideas and to prove the problems. Other than that, he was also giving us some evidences by providing data and analysis of his study. He also used historical analysis about 9/11...
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...Schools in urban areas unfairly receive less public funding. Roscigno brings up the fact that the inequality of public school funding is due to the local poverty tax in the district (268). This is considered residential segregation. This diminishes the opportunities and full potential a student can receive. Due to low funding the public school system is in the end shorting minorities their natural rights as American citizens. A child's education should not be based on how high the income rate is in their area. The wealth should be redistributed through the whole city. This will allow each student from every area to be given a fair chance to a quality education. The schools would all receive the same amount of funding and materials that are...
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