http://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/10-major-challenges-facing-public-schools
This is a great article because it focuses on the many challenges that public schools face today. Typically, the first thing that comes to mind when you think of public school challenges is poverty and how the school does not have enough money to get proper and up to date materials for their students. Yes, this is an important issue but rarely do you hear about the students how are in poverty and attend that same impoverished school. This article points out the top ten challenges that public schools face. Some of those challenges are classroom size which is an important issue because if there are too many students in one class with one teacher; those who need the extra help and attention are more than likely falling behind due to the amount of students there are in the classroom and the teacher not being able to attend to everyone. Classroom size can contribute to many other problems but the article also brings attention to poverty, family factors, technology, and more.
Since I work in Columbus Public Schools for my internship I am able to witness first hand how some of the challenges discussed in this article affect students learning. Although the article talked about "no child left behind" I was shocked to see that it did not discuss the challenges of students with special needs. I conduct an after-school program at Beatty Park Elementary School and all the students have emotional disturbance disorders, which lead them to have trouble learning in a normal classroom setting. This is a great problem I see in public schools that really affects all aspects of the learning environment and teachers being about to effectively teach.
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