" Aronowitz argues that discipline and control are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new dictated educational agenda. Aronowitz, also in his memoir, condemns the new dictated style of teaching in schools by proposing numerous methods to broaden the way students are educated and the creativity among both the teacher and the student. ... I attended Valley Stream Central High School for my high school years in Valley Stream, New York where I had the opportunity to be both schooled and educated. ... From local exams to the infamous SAT and ACT standa...

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During the 1800's, the United States began its public education program, and Boston and Philadelphia were the first cities to offer art and music education in the new program (Flynn, 2011). ... In the 1930's, the arts education grew so much in the United States that the Federal Arts Program (FAP) was created as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal; and provided jobs for unemployed artists and musicians to work in public schools (Flynn, 2011). ... One of the studies performed concluded that students involved/experienced in music performance scored 53 points higher on...

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One can learn something new everyday, whether it is off a billboard, Google, or even a video off YouTube. ... For example, in my Spanish class, instead of teaching herself, my teacher would use foreign language sites to show us videos of how other teachers are teaching their students so as they sat there watching we participated as if the teacher in the video was sitting in that classroom with us. ...

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