Bridging the GapJohn W. Gardner said, “Much of education today is vastly ineffective. Too often we give young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” Education today is very ineffective. It is in an intermediate stage between the ancient methods and a time of complete reform. The main problem is that people often lose sight of why the education system should be reformed. It shouldn't be reformed because "that's what everyone else does." It needs to be reformed to close the gap for students who have a different learning style. It should be reformed to expand knowledge for students. Education reform can have positive and negative effects. Because the education system is very complex, educators are faced with changes and must decide what is best for students. Educators have faced so many changes over time. From a one-room school to three-story buildings. Schools went from being strictly religious to it being illegal for teachers to talk about it. Not even twenty years ago, many students, such as farmers' children, dropped out of school after eighth grade to work on the farm. School was forced and college was not as strongly encouraged. Now most people go to college. Education has had many reforms. Some occurred over time, some occurred quickly, but all had a huge effect on students. Through all the changes in education, one has slowly started to occur around the world. The education system was created with a three-month break in the summer. Slowly, the idea of ​​year-round schooling became ingrained in education. Students fear it, but should they? The idea of ​​year-round school is not what everyone thinks it is. Most of the year sch...... half the paper ......earnings." Project Based Learning. Web. Mar. 2012. .Quillen, Ian. "Educational Technology Rides Funding Wave stimulus." Education Week. 09 February 2011: 15. SIRS Issues Researcher Web. 25 March 2012. Sadowski, Michael "Time and Learning". Harvard Education Letter, March/April 1998: 4-6. Gwen. "Learning Project-Based: A Getting Started Guide." TechLearning (2003). Web. March 2012. .Sovern, Jeff. "Laptops in the Classroom: How Distracting Are They?" Problem Researcher. Web. March 25, 2012. Thomas, Ph .D, John W. “A review of research on project-based learning” The Journal of Learning Sciences (2000): Web 367-42. 2012. .