Problems to be Addressed by Education Reform

        Reforming education or education reform is a plan, process, or movement that has a primary purpose of starting and carrying out positive changes in the education system within a specific location such as a country, state, province, or community. We had a research paper about the issues or concerns facing the state supported or public funded education system in the United States and one of the issues or concerns that I selected as the topic for my research paper is on the topic of reforming the public education system in the U.S.

        Since I only had a week to finish and complete my research paper, I decided that the theme of my topic should be the specific problems of the public school education system in the U.S., and the solutions that could be provided by an education reform plan. I also performed extensive research on my topic. As a senior student in a public funded secondary school, I am exposed to the problems facing our school that has also become typical for many public secondary schools in the country. Our school suffers from problems in some of the facilities, lack of qualified and good teachers, a curriculum that promotes poor academic performance, and other problems that affect the teachers, students and parents.

        I read and studied several websites of organisations that are dedicated for starting, planning and pursuing programmes in reforming the education of the public school system, and in lobbying government agencies that are involved in policies for public schools. I found out that the major public school problems that should be addressed by education reform involves curricula emphasizing academic skills while leaving out non-academic practical skills, heavy federal and state regulation that restricts local school boards and administrators in carrying out needed reform, and staunch opposition from teachers' unions and other groups with special interests in the education sector.