Major Changes to Education Systems on Horizon

(Newswire.net — February 12, 2015) Steyning, West Sussex — According to Chalkbeat Indiana, there are 9 education modifications that might move ahead in the legislature, though 6 others probably won’t. The battle over state Superintendent Glenda Ritz’s duties might have been the legislature’s most significant education concern up until now, but welcome modifications for students are also to be talked about. Lawmakers are looking for methods to ensure more fairness in school discipline, with the problem of huge racial differences in discipline being on top of the list, after discovering that black boys are suspended and expelled at a much higher rate than their white schoolmates nationwide and in Indiana.

 

Even though legislature is trying to find a method to resolve it, legislators may pass by the course activists would choose. Last year, those disparities were highlighted by a joint announcement of the United States Department of Education and the United States Department of Justice, which called for action to guarantee children are not disciplined unfairly, with Indiana having one of the largest disparities in the nation. The Senate is considering a huge 300-page bill focused on cutting inefficient policies, which author Pete Miller states are quite unnecessary. He added… “But some of the modifications include relatively recently passed laws that have actually raised objections. As an example, Senate Bill 500 would remove guidelines passed in only the past few years aimed at suppressing bullying and giving students with diabetes more control over their ability to administer insulin to themselves and test their blood sugar levels, while also making accreditation for public schools voluntary.”

 

Indiana might push ahead with a foreign language immersion pilot program, developing a pilot scheme to establish programs that would allow students to learn half the day in a foreign language, such as Chinese, Spanish or French. Overseas, and cursive handwriting will certainly be ditched from the Finnish education curriculum and changed by lessons in key-board typing, it has been revealed. The nation’s education board stated that the change, set to take effect in 2016, will reflect how typing abilities are more relevant than handwriting.

 

The move has sparked a debate over the future of handwriting in the classroom. Minna Harmanen from the National Board of Education told Finnish publication Savon Sanomat… “No one is suggesting that kids shouldn’t discover how to write by hand. However writing innovations have actually continued to develop and most of us make use of a keyboard of some kind to do the majority of our written communication, so it does make sense to invest some time at school making sure children have those key-board abilities.”

 

Another overseas nation, so far not revealed, is looking at introducing a structured thinking process into their national education system. Reports are out verifying that the Saltori System, invented by success guru Andy Shaw, will soon be discussed by Ministers at a high level conference, and would be the first country to introduce Mr Shaw’s thinking process, commercially referred to as “A Bug Free Mind,” into a public educational system.

 

 

 

 

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