¶ … Public Education
The foundation of the business called "Connect Education" is the purpose of this formal proposal. It will be written in response to questions and conflicts that have arisen in regards to public education. This proposal outlines solutions to said problems which will provide advantages for both the educators and families.
Letter of Transmittal/Memo
To whom it may concern,
There are a wide variety of both state and federal legislation that focuses on public education. The goal of the company, Connect Education, is to direct their efforts on the vital points of legislation such as BTE, NCLB, as well as the Master Plan. Having No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a large task and requires the backing of an entire community. According to the Hartford County, it requires high levels of commitment as well as effective planning and organization to increase the performance of our public schools (Hartford County, 2007).
The most important obstacle, funding, has already been taken care of and Connect Education is ready to execute their plans. Furthermore, there was a set of four goals created by the education board that is consistent with everything in this proposal (Harford County, 2007). Providing professional support and development for schools, teachers, as well as, the student and their families are the main items of this formal proposal. Other important points are the increased salaries for educators, a revisit to the special education program, and the creation of new schools.
Table of Contents
1) Executive Summary
2) Introduction
3) Building High School
4) Teacher Support/Development
5) Meeting the Needs and Program Requirements
6) Conclusion
Executive Summary
- Our country is falling behind internationally when it comes to educated students. Our standards are not up to par and the K-12 schools are performing very poorly.
- Even though our government has had procedures and goals in place for over 6 years in order to fix these problems, they are not improving. There have been no improvements over the last few years. In fact, many school districts have fallen even further behind. According to Kirsch, our students are placing close to last when it comes to testing in the math and sciences fields (Kirsch).
- It is easy to lay the blame on the students, their families, or their communities. However, that will not create solutions and it has been proven that such problems are not the root cause of our school system failing.
- Kirsch has provided numerous examples of success stories that show that our conflict with the education system can be resolved. There is cause for hope even though there are limits to what we can do. With enough work, we can create a chain of successful change in which one story will feed off another. Eventually, success will be the norm.
- Doing the same thing over and over will not yield different results. Again, Kirsch is the one that brings up the important point of change in policy. It is also important to note that our children are not lab rats. Adopting unproven policy to test its effectiveness is wrong and harms the students who are already struggling.
- Our legislators know what needs to be done and it is time to stop beating around the bush. We can have a successful policy in our country as there are successful practices in many places across the world. It should be our goal to discover the best and most effective practices around in order to adopt them domestically. Kirsch educates us in his paper about a program called America's Choice that has already achieved this. It was created by researching what made some of the best international schools tick, and has since been adopted in America with astonishing results. Pass rates for national exams in schools with this program are through the roof (Kirsch).
Introduction
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