{"id":8780,"date":"2025-09-21T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:01:20","slug":"american-teachers-and-generation-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/21\/american-teachers-and-generation-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"American teachers and Generation Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finland and Singapore demonstrate strong education systems by hiring the top 2% of college graduates and continually training them as teachers, in contrast to our system, which often employs less qualified candidates. This highlights a significant issue impacting our schools&#8217; effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Gen Z instructor&#8217;s video criticizes Gen Alpha students for asking why, yet persistent questioning is essential for learning. Insisting on rote acceptance reveals problems in teaching approaches, which undermine educational quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policies from the Reagan and Bush eras intentionally weakened our education system, driving a shift toward private or homeschooling. These changes illustrate systemic policy failures that continue to affect public education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teachers VS. GEN ALPHA: They Won\u2019t Sit Still, Be Quiet, or Keep Hands to Themselves! What Can We Do?\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYBeF1WufQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland and Singapore demonstrate strong education systems by hiring the top 2% of college graduates and continually training them as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}