Posted by Angel C. de Dios at 2:58 AM
Labels: Commentaries,
Data and Statistics, Education for All, Education Reform, Suggestions to Solve Problems in Basic Education
Thursday,
May 23, 2013
A country may be providing universal
kindergarten to its young children, but something is not necessarily better
than nothing. Without quality, basic education does not really help children.
If children are still unable to read by the time they reach the age of 10 years
old, education has not really done its job. Learning to read comes before
reading to learn. Thus, failure in the early years of basic education spells
failure in the later years. The 2015 Development Agenda of the United Nations
prescribed "education for all", but missed the fact that poor
education disguised as "education for all", does no good and perhaps
even does harm to the school system. Failing schools not only waste time and
effort. Such predicament can even lead to the impression that since schools are
useless, why should one even bother sending children to schools.
It is very easy to set goals. Goals such as "education for all" or "Every child, a reader by Grade 1", are certainly tantalizing. The world must realize that these promises are empty without providing the necessary resources to reach these goals. Anyone can promise universal kindergarten, but without the necessary teachers qualified to teach kindergarten, it should be obvious that this promise is actually a deception. In education, it is likewise not difficult to deceive people that goals have been attained. There are many examples of cheating. Selecting pieces of data can also paint a picture brighter than what is true.
Ed Gragert, the director for the Global Campaign for Education - US, writes in the Huffington Post:
It is very easy to set goals. Goals such as "education for all" or "Every child, a reader by Grade 1", are certainly tantalizing. The world must realize that these promises are empty without providing the necessary resources to reach these goals. Anyone can promise universal kindergarten, but without the necessary teachers qualified to teach kindergarten, it should be obvious that this promise is actually a deception. In education, it is likewise not difficult to deceive people that goals have been attained. There are many examples of cheating. Selecting pieces of data can also paint a picture brighter than what is true.
Ed Gragert, the director for the Global Campaign for Education - US, writes in the Huffington Post:
Once children are in school, how can
we be assured that they are receiving a quality education? For example, India
has made significant and very impressive progress in enrolling about 93 percent
of their primary school-aged children. But, a study showed that only 48.2
percent of fifth graders can read at even the second grade level. Simply
putting children in school is not sufficient and in some cases, if the
education is not of sufficient quality, it can actually backfire when parents
reasonably withdraw their children because for them -- it's a waste of time.
Thus, beyond 2015, it is not just
"education for all", it should be "quality education for
all". In line with this modified goal, one of the slides in the Global Campaign for Education - US home page points to something very important:
REACTIONS:
The goal of education is to provide quality of education. It has been an issue now a days that does the school really provides quality of education? There are so many criticism about this, some would think that it would result to a deception.
A institution can attain a quality of education if only it has a qualified teachers. An institution should have s quality teachers and good administration to have quality of education to produce a productive learners. And last thing, there should be a cooperation of the parents to reach these goals.
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