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Originally posted by Qrratugai
While this could clearly be a debate itself (the ranking of American education compared to others), enough studies have been conducted to show America's failures at providing good (public) education to students below the college level.
Just to confirm my views on this, I looked some stuff up just now, seeing how so many of us disagree that American education is really bad below college level. And my view were confirmed: America has received among the lowest rankings in mathematics and science not just on the high school level but on the primary school level as well!
I'm more than sure it's trying to improve the system, and some amendments must have been made during the last five years (think of the "No Child Left Behind" program initiated by Bush. Why do you think it was ever created? Because it was highly needed! It still is, but I don't trust anyone's actually taking it seriously) -- but as of yet, it remains far behind countries like China, Japan, some in Europe, North/South Korea, and so on. The saddest thing is, from my experiences, it even falls behinds Swat! (Okay, you can't compare the public education of one society to the private of another, but either way.)
Interestingly enough, friends of mine who've had education in both Pakistan and the U.S. -- high school -- tell me they wish they'd never come to the U.S. during high school because they fell behind their peers in Pakistan. And I completely agree, as the same happened to me.
But, as I said, this isn't simply based on experiences; this is something that research, too, tells us. Look up something like "Academic failure in the U.S." or "American education compared to other countries" or "The Failure/Success of America's education vs other countries." Reports, some of which are written by academic scholars, also give reasons for the failure and propose some suggestions for enhancing he situation. Look into it when time permits.
I didn't realize this personally until I wrote a paper on it in 2006 and saw what the hell I had missed out on in high school.
Just to confirm my views on this, I looked some stuff up just now, seeing how so many of us disagree that American education is really bad below college level. And my view were confirmed: America has received among the lowest rankings in mathematics and science not just on the high school level but on the primary school level as well!
I'm more than sure it's trying to improve the system, and some amendments must have been made during the last five years (think of the "No Child Left Behind" program initiated by Bush. Why do you think it was ever created? Because it was highly needed! It still is, but I don't trust anyone's actually taking it seriously) -- but as of yet, it remains far behind countries like China, Japan, some in Europe, North/South Korea, and so on. The saddest thing is, from my experiences, it even falls behinds Swat! (Okay, you can't compare the public education of one society to the private of another, but either way.)
Interestingly enough, friends of mine who've had education in both Pakistan and the U.S. -- high school -- tell me they wish they'd never come to the U.S. during high school because they fell behind their peers in Pakistan. And I completely agree, as the same happened to me.
But, as I said, this isn't simply based on experiences; this is something that research, too, tells us. Look up something like "Academic failure in the U.S." or "American education compared to other countries" or "The Failure/Success of America's education vs other countries." Reports, some of which are written by academic scholars, also give reasons for the failure and propose some suggestions for enhancing he situation. Look into it when time permits.
I didn't realize this personally until I wrote a paper on it in 2006 and saw what the hell I had missed out on in high school.
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