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Online Education – A Time-Effective Mode Of Learning
Constructing one’s daily schedule in the most ‘time-effective’ way is the key to success today, considering the pace at which everybody’s life is running. Leverage the ‘Time factor’ and you have made it to the top. This explains the increasing significance of online education. This is why the number of online schools and colleges has increased significantly across in the United States (US) and other parts of the world. This indicates the growing shift towards online education.
Here are some of the most important advantages and benefits that online education offers, which you may consider in case you are looking out for various options to pursue higher education at your own pace and without disturbing your schedule.
Accessibility: Thanks to online education, the distance from the campus is no longer a barrier that separates education and the students. Today’s generation of students has the advantage of utilizing their time effectively, since there is distant online education available to them. To access online learning, all that the students need to do is to install the contemporary communication equipment such as computer and Internet and enroll for the desired courses online.
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Benefits Of Home-Schooling
More and more parents are exploring the benefits of home-schooling their children. The largest factor that contributes to my favorable consideration is home-schooling allows parents to take control over the moral and religious learning of the child. Parents have the flexibility to incorporate their beliefs and ideologies into the child’s curriculum. And there is no confusion in the child’s mind because there is no variation between what is being taught and what is being practiced. As a example, our older son had a project to research and work with our monthly budget. We worked through it with him and when his teacher reviewed it, she couldn’t believe that it was real. She thought our income and expenses were elevated and unrealistic! It came right off my spreadsheet that I use every month for budgeting. He didn’t know what to say.
The schooling of the child at home becomes an extended family activity. Parents get involved in every step of the learning procedure. Field trips and experiments become family activities. Thus, the child receives more quality time with his parents. The entire family shares games, chores and projects. Family closeness becomes the focus here. The child is also free of
any negative peer pressure while making choices and decisions.
Individual attention is another prominent benefit of home-schooling. For instance, if your child needs more time to learn math, then he can reduce the time for his English lessons. There are no fixed hours of learning per subject. This means that a child has the advantage of focusing additional time on the subject that seems tough, without any additional pressure. If your child is mastering his given curriculum, he can excel into higher levels or else learn a valuable lesson of entrepreneurship, “I get succeed (am paid) based on my results, not for the time that I put it.”
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Will No Child Left Behind Still Rule the Education System
One thing is for sure: educators are very much hoping that President-Elect Obama’s administration will overhaul the No Child Left Behind act. This is largely because the legislation that was so popular when it was first proposed has proved to be a large…we’ll go with “mess” since this is a family site.
When it comes to education, the No Child Left Behind act had noble goals: make sure that students were really learning and that school districts were not getting paid to merely baby-sit kids but to actually teach them. The problem stems from how learning is judged under the act. Under No Child Left Behind, a child’s education is judged solely upon his or her performance on a standardized test.
The standardized test has been used for decades to determine how well students were learning basic skill sets in individual states. Because schools are publicly funded, tax payers wanted to make sure that their teachers (who have the hardest job in the world) were earning their (tiny) salaries. Before the No Child Left Behind act, however, teachers weren’t forced to teach “to the test” and were able to cover a wider variety of materials that taught students how to think. Now, after the passing of this act, students are taught how to test well.
Another criticism of the No Child Left Behind act is that it provides incentives for teachers and school districts to lower education standards to both keep their federal funding and to keep from having to push the students who do not perform well from the district altogether.
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