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Abstract
My formal education began in 1967 in a small school in north central Iowa. The world was a lot different then. There were 13 students in my kindergarten class. We all lived with our biological mother and father. Our fathers were the "breadwinners;" our mothers were the "bread makers." We read books about Dick, Jane, and Sally and completed thousands of worksheets. We memorized facts and sat quietly while the teacher did all the talking. We thought that once we graduated from high school we were finished with school forever. Words, such as drugs, computers, and AIDS, were not a part of our vocabulary. When we graduated 13 years later, ten of us had made the journey together. We had learned a lot about drugs, a little about computers, and nothing about AIDS. Today, 17 years after high school graduation, we know a lot about drugs, computers, and AIDS. Our society continues to change at a rapid rate, and education needs to keep pace with these changes. Even though our current educational system has changed slightly from that in which I learned, it does not provide our students with the skills necessary to compete in a global economy; therefore, as educators we must begin to move in a positive direction. We must work together to build quality schools. When we think of quality we must continuously think about what is best for our students.
Year of Submission
1998
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Education
Department
Department of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education
First Advisor
Dale R. Jackson
Second Advisor
Robert H. Decker
Date Original
1998
Object Description
1 PDF file (23 leaves)
Copyright
©1998 Pam J. Zeigler
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zeigler, Pam J., "Quality Schools for the Next Century: a Reflective Essay" (1998). Graduate Research Papers. 1834.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/grp/1834
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