Analysis Of Education In America The Next 25 Years By Irving Buchen

In "Education in America: The Next 25 Years" by Irving H Buchen, he predicts changes that will take place in the next 25 years. He believes that new techniques will solve budget problems facing schools, and also believes these new techniques will be more effective then the more expensive methods used today. Buchen says that changes will be made by choice and "fueled by changing roles for teachers, administrators, students and the entire communities." (Buchen 299) Buchen states if we could look into the future 25 years we would see "four factors driving educational change: decentralization and educational options; performance evaluation and success measurement; changes in leadership and leadership roles and reconfigurations in learning
There are going to be a lot of revisions in the future, and change is pretty much unavoidable due to the altering lifestyles that are occurring on a daily basis. To make school available to all that attend schools need to incorporate flexibility into their classrooms to make teaching our children a success. For example, the families with two working parents have a difficult time getting the students to and from school due to their work schedules. This could be addressed with schools holding different hours. Another example would be the students who learn at a different level than others. This could be addressed by students that tend to have a harder time grasping things can be paired with a student that is excelling in the
Schools lose money that the government allocates when students leave. This forces schools to find other methods of teaching that work for the classroom as a whole instead of what I call "generic teaching." What I mean by generic teaching is that each student is taught in the same manner. No learning style is taken into consideration. I believe every student learns at a different level and also every student learns by different methods. I personally learn by being showed how to do something and then working on it until I master it. Others learn by reading. They can read a manual and set up a computer or stereo system. I find it difficult to do learn that way. I have to try and try again until it just works. There are some students that just naturally learn quicker than others. Then there are students that the harder they study, the more confused they are. The last example is the students that need more one on one attention or have to learn through different methods. This has to be addressed by the schools to ensure each student gets the proper education needed to survive after high school. This is where technology comes