Many people believe that education standards have declined in recent times, particularly in the areas of literacy and numeracy. Discuss the causes of this problem and offer some possible solutions to it. Give reasons for your answer.

It would be quite right to profess that the declination of educational
quality
, particularly in literature and mathematics, has globally grabbed attention among the populace over the
last
decades.
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essay will connote the excessive use of state-of-the-art technological devices by juveniles and lack of good teachers as main causes and submit legislating stricter rules for exploiting accurately modern facilities at schools and encouraging talented people to come in the teaching profession as solutions to draw a reasonable conclusion. According to a common perception among many, one of the fundamental reasons behind decreasing the level of standards concerning education lies in the fact that the young are used to utilise new electronic devices to carry out their assignments. As a case in point, one nephew of mine is accustomed to using his smart mobile phone not only for straightening out all the mathematical tests but for accounting simplest math questions like multiplying two one-digit numbers. That being so, it is more likely that in no so long distant future, he would not be able to achieve abilities of problem-solving in the real world being needed in the job market.
Besides
, students are too busy to play video games or surfing
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nternet that they do not feel interested to read books outside their academic syllabus.
Thus
their reading habit is a daunting issue these days. Again, the lack of
quality
teachers who can inspire students is another reason for
this
decreasing educational standard. Most teachers these days are after money and fame rather than enlighting new generations. It is obvious that it would not be possible to deal with
such
cataclysm by a single solution. Some,
however
, claim that by setting regulation concerning limited usage of technologic devices, particularly at educational centres could pave the road for improving training frameworks. To illustrate, in some European nations, some tough laws have been adopted by the
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authorities in terms of forbidding the use of any kind of electronic facilities in classrooms, especially during the exams among pupils in elementary schools. They have correspondingly realised that the rate of students’ abilities for solving complicated issues gradually increased after a few months.
Moreover
, more literary works should be added in the syllabus to let students learn their own culture and custom through the reading of that literature.
Finally
, more facilities should be added for the teacher so that people do not come to
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eaching profession only because they did not find anything better. In many countries, very few talented people come to the teaching profession in
junior level
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only because the government has not allocated enough facilities for those teachers. By way of conclusion,
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one of the practical and effective methods of overcoming the dilemma of
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low
quality
of education standards ranging from literature to mathematics, legislating stricter rules for youngsters not exploiting modern facilities at school and attracting more
quality
teachers could be considered as two effective solutions to cope with somewhat
this
negative trend.
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