Reflection # 8

In 1983, The Imperative for Educational Reform was released, demanding higher scores in subjects like, math, English or social science. It also required high standards in qualifying to be a teacher. Some people thought it would do much more harm than good to them, and others questioned if this reform was going to be in any way of an effect to them. There were many waves in this reform but the first one, which began in 1982, was meant to raise the bar in test scores from students. Students were having a difficult time in areas like Science and Math mostly. But not only did they want test scores to increase; they also wanted teacher's performances in classrooms to improve as well.

Now moving on to the second wave, established in 1986, called again for a more prominent encouragement from teachers. This also involved covering less subject matters but increasing studying habits much more. Even the Principal had to put its effort in and try to do a much better job in running his/her own school.

In addition, the third wave of reform, in which it began in 1988, asked for more support to students who were having financial problems in their household. They realized that students were not at fault for their families not having the right amount of time or money to offer them a full developed education. This wave allowed them to give support to those in needs. In areas like transportation, food, counseling, health care, even parent teaching.

In my opinion, wave one remains to be the most dominant one because critics remain to test out and figure out ways to improve students test scores, teachers performances, and schools performances in general. Til this day were still going through this on going problem. Students are having a difficult time passing the FCAT, whether it's reading, writing or math. This will forever remain an issue to the school district. Weather or not the schools are doing what their suppose to be doing. Some even believe that only the American industry has no one to blame but itself, said by Educator Clinton Boutwell.