In our world today schooling and learning are two separate entities, which need to become one if America wants to better its educational system, there needs to be more flexible classroom settings that allow students to engage in the learning experience. When you read about the problems with American education, you usually read statistics about literacy and dropout rates. But those statistics don’t do the subject justice because the problem with American education is a human story. Every dropout is a human being full of potential, every illiterate teenager is an person, and every kid that’s doing 20 to life is a real breathing person. In a country where we pride ourselves in giving free education to students, we are doing a horrible job in actually giving an education, with so many huge problems facing the school systems today many of which are overlooked and seen as normal. Problems such as unmotivated teachers, under funding of school programs that would enable classrooms to......
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