This document discusses changes in the US education system over the last decade. It notes that while the total number of children under 18 has decreased slightly, enrollment in public and private schools has increased from 54.8 million in 2010 to 56 million in 2019. Charter schools have also grown substantially, increasing their enrollment from 0.4 million in 2000 to 3 million in 2016. Spending on K-12 education has risen significantly, with total spending increasing from $527.3 billion in 2010-2011 to over $680 billion in 2019-2020, and per-pupil spending rising from $10,663 to $13,440 over the same period. The document expresses concern that current trends may be reducing students' passion for learning and

1. MARÍA CALVO PUGA
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2. Education transforms lives and is at the guts of UNESCO’s mission to make peace,
eradicate financial condition and drive property development.
UNESCO believes that education could be a right for all throughout life which access
should be matched by quality. The Organization is that the solely international organization
agency with a mandate to hide all aspects of education.
The U.S education system, K-12 created spectacular results for many of the twentieth
century. We have a tendency to trace its origins back to the top of the nineteenth century,
once the America’s social and economical desires and its circumstances were terribly
completely different from those nowadays. Nowadays, American society is much a lot of
advanced and demands extremely qualified voters, a demand that inevitably starts with top
quality time of life education, as we are going to illustrate below. Therefore, specialists
square measure presently requesting all public administrations and personal sector to
require additional steps to make sure top quality educational institution education for
everybody so as to enhance Americans’ skills and therefore the United States’ economy,
likewise on overcome the present inequalities.
Between 2010 and 2020, enrollment at U.S. public faculties grew additional numerous.
The general public narrative on the teaching profession swung between calls to fireplace
ineffective educators and sympathy for those that should work 2 jobs to stay up with their
bills. And U.S. education secretaries caused arguing like never before.
As the lawmakers soured on No Child Left Behind Act, concerns about over testing and
how tests were used dominated public conversations about education. And the shift
between the Obama and Trump administrations showed dramatically different views on
how to improve America’s education system, from sometimes prescriptive school
improvement policies to persistent championing of school choice.
The legal authorization for the No child Left Behind Act, the most federal K-12 law, expired
late in 2007, and through future many years as lawmakers tried and did not revamp the
law, opposition to President George W. Bush’s signature K-12 accomplishment reached a
boiling purpose.
The annual tests needed by No child Left Behind, and a lot of specifically the ways in
which they were being employed to judge academics and faculties with increasing and
outstanding frequency, became a concentration of great backlash that didn’t fall showing
neatness on party lines. The law gave the impression to channel frustration and criticism a
couple of sorts of problems, together with the Obama administration’s policies, and
ultimately in 2015 a range of political actors combined to undo it.
What emerged in its place was the bipartisan each Student Succeeds Act, approved at the
tip of that year. ESSA unbroken the annual tests in place however otherwise considerably
restricted the federal government’s role in policies like teacher evaluations and college
improvement. From a political perspective, it had been a landmark action for a polarized
Congress.
I’m going to talk about some gripping ways American education has changed in the last
decade:
There were more children under 18 in America in 2010 than there were in 2018 (the most
recent year data was available): 74 million versus 73 million, according to the Kids Count
Data Center. That being said, the National Center for Education Statics reports there are
more children enrolled in both public and private schools in 2019 than there were in 2010.
In the fall of 2019, 56 million students enrolled in pre-K through 12th grade at both public
and private schools, while in the fall of 2010 that same number was 54.8 million.

3. There has been heaps of buzz within the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election
concerning charter faculties and their planned funding. Consistent with the National Center
for Education Statistics, public charter faculties have seen the foremost growth of any style
of faculty over the last 20 years. In 2000, public school enrollment was zero.4 million,
increasing to three million in 2016.
In the fall of 2019, the National Center for Education projected that U.S. primary and
secondary schools would spend just over $680 billion over the new school year. The
average amount to be spent per public school pupil was $13,440. Both numbers were way
up from what the country spent a decade ago, during the 2010–2011 school year: $527.3
billion overall and $10,663 per pupil.
In my opinion, we are creating a school-hating society. In merely ten years, young people
will give up their studies. We’re making learning a torture, instead of arousing curiosity in
us. I consider that more and more people study a career by obligation or pressure. So, in
10 years the current future teachers will not awaken that passion in the young people,
because they have none. That’s why I think we already have robots instead of teachers.
They just focus on us memorizing concepts, but not enjoying it. The key is not to
encourage emotions in the classroom, but to teach with emotion and this is something a
robot can’t do.
I would like to conclude with a few words from the philosopher Plato: “No one can be
forced to learn, nor can we open our heads to put knowledge into them, you can only show
the way, so that everyone thinks for himself”

4. Bibliography
• The United Nations. https://es.unesco.org/themes/education
• 2020 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.
https://www.hoover.org/research-teams/k-12-task-force/research-themes/
american-education-2030
• The United Nations. https://www.unicef.org/spanish/education/
• Madison Troyer, November 18, 2019. https://stacker.com/stories/3665/25-
ways-american-education-has-changed-last-decade
• Andrew Ujifusa, December 18, 2019.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/2010-to-now-a-turbulent-decade-for-
schools/2019/12