Sending their child to a specialized middle or high school increases focus in a smaller group of subjects to promote college readiness. This shows that neither traditional nor specialty high schools have higher chances of pushing students toward certain career choices. We need high schools to change their curriculums to help prepare students for college and make well-informed decisions about their future.
First and foremost, high school curriculums and offered classes need to be flexible and diverse, ranging far beyond and within the core subjects of math, science, history and english. These classes let students discover paths that may not lead to college, but may lead to trade school instead. Hands-on experiences like these are important in every subject.
Students getting their heads outside of the classroom and into the workplace to see the real-life applications of what they are learning in school is not only a great way to increase learning and retention of knowledge, but also exposes students to possible careers, passions, interests and hobbies. Students should have the opportunities to see how a hospital works, to be able to see how cases play out in the courtroom, how groundbreaking scientific research takes place and how an artist creates works of art in their studio.
Hands-on education will help students go less blindly into their college admissions or trade school processes with a much clearer picture of their major and careers in the future. A switch to a hands-on learning environment must be accompanied by a change in teaching methods. Standardized tests dominate the teaching scene and the education of students today. Curricula are teaching to the test rather than teaching students to learn.
But eliminating these exams alone will not improve education or college readiness, as they were a poor indicator of college readiness to begin with.
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By Taieba Tabassum. By Bianca Jortner. Not to mention that much of what we learn in many of our classes is only remembered for an end of year exam. It is also important to realize that our lack of knowledge can set the economy back. The less we know about the real world, the less prepared we are to operate in it. As a result, we make bad economic decisions, or are simply not educated enough to make investments, expand businesses, and even just manage our bank accounts.
Among the abundance of negative opinions that exist in regard to our current education system, there is a confused and desperate population of students across the country who feel that their curriculums are not preparing them for life after high school. Skip to content.
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