The compulsory attendance of children to go to school starting at the age of six to up nineteen in the thirteenth grade is called the K 12 educational system. Learning about a little bit of the background of this type of educational system makes it easier to understand its overall concept of teaching. The first grade, kindergarten was created by a philosopher German teacher named Friedrich Froebel who wanted to create a place for young children to learn from their guided playing and enable them to bloom with their individual minds and initial learning. This grade was created long before K 12 education system was followed and which started in America in about 1856. At that time, education was not yet compulsory nor not all children have access to attend school. Kindergarten was usually taught to the children of the elite who do not have to work in their family's farms. In 1918, the Fisher Act helped the formulation of the K 12 education that is familiar today. The law started ...
It is no longer news that the rate of failure in the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) exams; the two foremost examinations students have to undertake for successful completion of secondary school, and to qualify for admission into higher institutions of learning, have increased tremendously over the years. The percentage of failure as Nigeria turned fifty this year is so alarming as over 70% of students who undertook the aforementioned examinations failed Mathematics and English Language; the two major subjects a student must pass in order to get admitted into most courses in higher institutions. A question must be asked; should our education sector improve or decline as a nation? These recent events have confirmed the insensitiveness of those put in charge of our education sector in the past few years to the rotten nature of the sector. Each of the decision makers in the sector bring up their own policies as soon as they assume p...