Cultural Analysis of "Our 19th Century Curriculum"

In the post below, I will be looking at the article by Andy Kessler, "Our 19th Century Curriculum" and analyzing it through a cultural lens.

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Kessler writes about how the American educational system was set up to give students the best chances at getting jobs, but now jobs have changed requirements, and our schools aren't meeting them. He uses words like, "future, change, and curriculum" to help his argument.

Kessler's main message is that jobs changed, so education needs to change too. We can't expect jobs to be filled, because many students are simply not prepared for them like they used to be. American education will only get better, Kessler argues, if creators of curriculum look to the future of the world, not the past.

Kessler uses those main words to connect his audience to what he is talking about and give more emphasis to what he is saying. Kessler stated in his article, "Fixing it means looking into the future, not the past. In addition to history and literature and basic communications skills needed for
critical thinking, we ought to be teaching a curriculum that has some vague connection with the reality of what employers want today and over the next several decades."