Progressive Movement Research Paper

Today’s Americans rely heavily on support from the government in their daily lives. Over the past several decades, the centralized government has been getting more powerful, and the government now has its hand in many different facets of the average American citizen’s life. Economic stimulus, settings of price floors and price ceilings, and limiting supply of certain goods are all ways in which the government has stepped into the economy to effect the free market in America. Throughout history, economic plans made by the centralized government often fail or results are not as planned. Specific examples like the failure of foreign aid policy, the failure of American public education, and the failure of government money stimulating the economy …show more content…
Currently, public education is all about bureaucracy, regulatory rules, and a monopoly on the education economy. Before schooling became an important policy in centralized government, education was privately funded, and most schools were not open to all the children in surrounding areas. During the Progressive Movement, goals were put in place to remove disorganized and problematic government decisions in public education, but results were not significant. In the centralized government’s plan for public schooling, several problems arose. How do we create a standard of learning across many different cultures in the demographic layout? How do we monitor the standards of learning to make sure administrators, teachers, and students are doing what they are supposed to be doing when it comes to standardized testing? The main problem is the centralized government has gotten lost in the standardization of education, and this monopoly of public school has forced ‘the average student’ to only have the option of public school when learning styles vary. Usually there is a wide spread of different learning types in students, so a set process in learning standardized material in schools fails to educate students on the importance of being a disciplined, educated citizen of the United

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