Favorite Blog Post

My favorite blog post for the semester is titled "the data cycle", posted on May 17th, 2010. I would say this is exemplary of the progress I have made blogging this year because it displays several important things that are important to blogging in our class: making connections between material and discussions and analyzing texts. I, in this post made the connection that I saw between the Kentucky Cycle we were reading in class and the topic of Mr. Bolos' blog post a few days before. I made this connection which I believe shows that I am thinking critically about the things I see and hear. I also used textual examples in my post, which I think is very important. One of the main things I took away from AIS this year is that if you want to make a claim, you have to bring evidence. And in the case of my blog I did just that. I think that over the course of the year, my focus in blogging has shifted. I began blogging about pretty arbitrary topics that I found interesting personally, and finished by writing posts that thought critically about our class. All in all the blogging experience was pretty unique, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm looking forward to weighing in on a few discussions next year on the Am Stud Blog!

Monday, September 28, 2009

Obama Seeks to Lengthen School Year

Obama, following suit after the in-school streaming of his speech to his country, continues in his efforts to change America's education. He is now proposing that school days and years be lengthened in attempts to meet the "global standard of education".

"Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here," Duncan told the AP. "I want to just level the playing field." This was a quote taken from Arne Duncan, the education secretary for the Obama administation. The aspect of this that interested me was the conclusion that more school would lead to more success. Obama and his advisors see it more as an issue of quantity and not quality. I, as an average high school student, could not disagree more with this idea.

If the government wishes to improve productivity, then they should look into the curriculum instead of the hours. This, as I think about it more and more seems like a cop out by the government, to not make any real change but to rather just take the easy way out.
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  1. Zoe C.September 29, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    I agree with you. Personally, I think the school year is too long. But the schools in Europe just have a very different school schedule than we do. For example, in France, school goes longer into the summer, but they have more, longer breaks throughout the year. So Obama would have to rearrange the entire school schedule that every American is already used to, and would probably make a lot of people very angry in the process. I agree with you that education should be about quality and not quantity.

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