Not a Good Time to Change America's Educational System

A hundred years ago, the students went to school for half a year. In the summer they work in farms and fields to help their families earn enough money to survive. This system is still effective today. And when our children in our country no longer need to work on the scene, a lot of people ask us why we still have this system. President Obama has announced plans to better adapt to today's children. Even if Japan urgently needs educational reform, the current plan will create more problems than solving it.

This is the history of higher education in America. Increases are caused by accretion. Over time, old and new are added to modern old and new. It will change unless there is a spectacular vision for the system that is needed in the future. I tried a new idea; some success, many failures. Through gradual approximation, it is the higher education system necessary to help evolve society. Changes in society are constant and higher education needs to adapt to it. When social change is harmful like McCarthy era, the responsibility of higher education is to resist it and to make society better. This is a natural process like dancing. However, in the era of large-scale social change such as transition to the information economy in the United States, it is necessary to shift to higher education corresponding to it.

It is time to rethink the American higher education system. In addition to tuition fees, the idea that education outside of high school is citizenship is reflected. It will negate the repetitive wave of national budget cutovers, which could privatize the public higher education system in the United States and raise millions of graduates to the middle class. Beyond tuition fees is not only a worldwide common effort to make the university economic but also includes some recommendations aimed at improving the internal fairness of the US higher education system It is. The overall goal is to guarantee that students will not be able to access higher education and will not be able to complete higher education based on student ethnicity, gender, income, disability, parents, or veteran status.