Academia
AcademiaThe Americans�� perspective towards education has a similar pattern with the rest of the world. Buy a bigger house, drive sports-utility vehicles and have elaborate vacations are some sort of possibilities if one can get the most out of college education. Except for those who are born rich, attending college seems to be the common gateway towards financial stability; the ability to afford better living with full control on expenditure and investment opportunities. If the prosperities are foreseeable by the society, why do students in America hold the highest drop out rate among all other nations? High diversity in the racial population of American schools and the state government��s welfare reform deeply influence the productivity of academia. Although the academia creates study opportunity for many students, at the same time, it generates a high students�� dropout rate. To correct the problem, it should study the existing academia condition and restructure its admission policy, more important, to create a new teaching and learning environment that would accommodate the needs of every student from different racial background.
The productivity of education is declining since it does not catch up with the increasing population of the students. From the Gold Rush to the recent era of immigration, America has always been a land of opportunities to everyone. As in education, it offers classroom seat to students regardless of age, gender or nationality. However, with increasing enrollments in colleges and universities while nearly half of current teachers are near retirement, the America academia is facing some serious problems other countries have never endured: The lack of qualifying teachers with an effective teaching method for the great diversity in campus populations. Pamela Black of Business Week says, ��Further fueling the trend is the national political debate over education and fears of an impending teacher shortage.�� (Black 174) Insufficient teaching resources deeply affects students�� ability to get involved in school activities for they receive less attention from teachers who are already overwhelmed by large class sizes.
Especially for the minorities and low performance students, lack of teachers�� attention unable them to move up to the academic standards. In Graduation, Angelou notes, ��Nor were we to be ignored in the general betterment scheme he (Mr. Donleavy) had in mind.�� Angelou reflects the psychological impact on minority students when the school does not participate to support their academic performances. Similar to Angelou��s experience, many minority and poor performance students are underserved by the present academia. Without teachers�� guidance, deficient students are unable to absorb new knowledge and to get involve in the college communities. These factors create an intimidating learning environment that would eventually cause them to drop out of school. Mass education of United States is not morally right since it lacks the responsibility to ensure that talent is developed in all communities. To prevent deficient students from dropping out of schools, the academia must develop a new teaching strategy to strengthen the learning ability of every student...
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