For education majors, it’s important for us to be aware of new issues schools are facing. Here are some major concerns classrooms are facing in 2024.
Learning loss
As schools are preparing their students for the next upcoming academic year of their life, the 2024 election brings attention to decreasing grades of test scores. Many students are complaining about the side effects COVID has left. Studies have shown that children have been falling behind in all their subjects. They feel less connected to their traditional classroom daily life from being online for a long period of time.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) came out with a statement that average scores in June for young preteens are at their lowest point since 1990, as well as their history scores shrinking to the bottom around 2004. There is a huge gap where kids don’t know the basic education curriculum.
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Book Bans
There will be some book banning in schools that have questioned their ability to teach these certain topics. 1,477 books were banned due to having explicit pornographic, “harmful to minors” and “sexually explicit” content roaming around school grounds. A book called “Let’s talk about it” by Erika Meon and Matthew Nolan, their graphic novel, talks about a teen’s guide on certain topics like gender, sex, relationships, and sexting. These Bans were commonly found in GOP-Led States, a republican party biased.
Republicans argued how they are finding inappropriate books from the hands of children. Florida has found a solution to make this situation easier for them, where the books could stay there for months due to pending investigation.
AI and Chat GPT
This popularized revolution of technology has raised concerns for upcoming aspiring educators and some college professors. Professors are trying to solve this issue by having to change assignments and tests to prevent cheating. Our generation of educators are more likely to handle these signs of AI usage from being up to date with technology. Teachers are analyzing and catching onto AI works that students submit. There’s no sign of an authentic student’s writing style from using AI.
“Programs like ChatGPT lack the ability to form emotional connections with readers. We cannot rob the writing of human emotion.” — Rose, 18
How future educators can prevent this:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/chatgpt-and-beyond-how-to-handle-ai-in-schools
As an Education major student, there’s pros and cons in using AI. It’s technology, which is supposed to be fun, but I’ve seen some people take advantage of something that’s supposed to be helpful and instead ruin the image of AI. Not necessarily saying it’s a horrible idea to use AI, just use it in a moderate amount to find information fast, but in your own words explain and do your own research.
Victoria Suos is an Education Pre-K 4 major who will be graduating from Holy Family University in 2027. She was born and raised in North Philadelphia. Some hobbies she has learned are doing her own nails and having a small business making clay charms. She has a lot of pets, including two cats named Boogers and Tigress.
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