Current Event: Analytical Entry

America has been facing very similar issues with education since the idea of having a common education was first thought up. The settlers of America agreed that knowledge was important; this is how public schooling came to be. The civil rights movement sent public education on a downfall. In present day America the educational system is still failing. The attempts made by the American government to fix the educational systems and provide equal educations have failed over and over again. It is not that each person in America needs to have the same knowledge, but the same opportunity to have the knowledge needs to be offered. America currently does not offer that.
Tom Bethell a public policy researcher once said "The quality of public education has deteriorated"(Bethell). Many people of America recognized that the educational system is problematic. There are many reasons for this being Bethell’s belief. His main point was about low-income for the schools. Schools in low-income areas had less quality for their schools. Due to the fact low-income areas reside in mostly minorities such as blacks, blacks are offered a lower education then the public schools in that area do not have enough funding to keep up their quality of education. It is clear to see that the quality of public education has been failing due to standardized testing. The idea of standardized testing is not necessarily a bad idea; it depends on how the government interprets the information though. A main factor in knowing that low-income public schools have lost quality is through standardized testing. But what has the government done? The Brown V. Board of Education created new laws, have they helped integrate? No. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was created to improve funding for inner city schools, did it help? It failed. The No Child Left Behind Act was created, did it help? It failed. What is the solution?
The solution is in creating white communities according to John Morgan. Morgan once said “The most important aspect of such a community [white communities] would be the education it offered children.” (Morgan) White communities could allow for all white children be able to have a good education without blacks, who only bring down the quality of education. This would create the history of America to go in a circle. Whites used to live in their own communities and then blacks wanted to move in, as they began to integrate the government created communities with low-income houses. Blacks have the right to go to school, therefore creating white communities would do nothing but further cause segregation throughout America. So what is the solution? The solution is to “And today the argument that school reform should provide equal opportunity for children, or prepare them to live in a pluralistic society, is spent. The winning argument is that better schools are needed for all children—black, white, brown and every other hue—in order to foster a competitive workforce in a global economy,” according to Juan Williams. He believes that nothing can help the segregation that America’s history has created. The thing left to do is to keep pushing all races to have an education.
Segregation did not work before and it will not work now. The issue of education is not one to forget or push aside. It needs an answer now, now means now. The more time the government waits to help their citizens find an education the more citizens will fail. The government has failed enough, now is the time to stop and find a solution that gets to the root of the problem, the problem being the government’s priorities of education.