Teacher tenure has been critiqued of being extremely outdated; this belief holds weight as the "concept has deep historical roots in property law " especially from the English feudal system"" (Vacca 1). ... The advocates of teacher tenure would argue that it is not the fault of the teacher per-say, but of other economic, environmental, and federal factors that contributes to the atrociously sub-par education students in the public school system receive today. ... If education was not striated but controlled from a federal level rather than at the state level then maybe it would be easier ...

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Over the course of many years in the education system, along with the help of Pablo Freire's The "Banking" Concept of Education, it is becoming more noticeable that students have suffered from narration sickness and loss of creativity. ... This clearly shows that the education system is filling the minds of the young with copious amounts of information, dulling creativity to the point of inability to simply think for themselves. In America's education system, there is still difficulty in exercising freedom to express exactly one's own opinion of works and have uniqu...

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The education system in the United States is in crisis. ... This leaves a massive portion of the country out of the equation and in search of ways to access the extremely positional good of satisfactory American education. ... In order to better our system we must change the very nature of our system and make education in America a non-positional good. ... "Urban school systems lack families with political clout," whereas middle-class parents are more likely to be active within the school system and hold teachers and principals responsible (Ryan 272). ... In order to fix our syste...

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From the data of 128 college men and women enrolled in the first quarter of principles of accounting, Larsen (40) developed four multiple-regression equations, using the following as predictive factors: age; sex; veteran status; size of high school attended; rank in high school class; size of senior class; cumulative high school average; previous study of bookkeeping; grade point average during first quarter in college; grades in college freshmen composition, business mathematics, and introduction to business; and college entrance test scores. The equations were then applied to a group of 10...

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Racial bias in the education system is a widespread problem, with serious implications. ... Furthermore, teachers' expectations directly influence the student's interaction with the school system. ... The educational system needs to recognize this and implement programs within the system that aid in the proper development of their language skills. ... In this system of education, dialogue between teacher and student is limited. ... Testing bias is yet another aspect that leads to inequality in the educational system. ...

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