The ranking of u.s in education.?

Question

in all areas is really low.

why is it?

the government?

what are they doing wrong, i know they are doing something tremendously wrong.

Answer 1

the same way the uk is becoming. the rich look after themselves and everyone else doesn't matter.

Answer 2

The kids are underachievers. Some schools don't have the necessary facilities to teach the kids. They take the education for granted. Another reason is that government has programmes put in place which allot funding to schools based on the results. This means that if a school has poor results in one year, it will spiral downwards. You see, schools need funding to have special programmes for kids, in and out of the classroom to help them learn and without the appropiate monies, they cannot progress.

I live in a small island in the Caribbean and I've been to U.S a couple times. I have 2 cousins who have been through the school system over there and another 1 who is still in school. Major differences : Classes here are large, all the schools have a dress code, worship is held every morning, education is free, children start school at 4 and leave at 16, the school's principal can disciplin the kids by giving them lashes, teachers cannot physically beat the children.

Answer 3

First of all, the rankings in ALL areas are NOT really low, although we don't do well on math and science at the primary and secondary grades.  As far as I know, no one has really done any measures overall.

I think, frankly, that it is our society's attitudes toward education.  Go to any other country and parents are proud to have their children go to school, and children are proud to be in school.  Here, we whine and complain about everything, telling children it is a waste of their time to be in school and that they should hate school.  Is it any wonder, then, that they don't learn?

Answer 4

Do you mean the average level of academic performance by U.S. children in elementary and secondary school?  That's the result of the general trend of not demanding much from our children and being more concerned with their emotional well-being than with whether they can compete against children more encouraged to work hard to learn.  While true, that has nothing to do with "government."

If you're thinking about the level of education in U.S.'s better colleges and university, then you are simply wrong - which is why more than half of the World's top-ranked universities are in the U.S. and why so many non-US-citizens try to come here for their college degrees.

As in simple raising of children, we get what we demand.

Wise old saying:  It is not what we don't know that gets us in the most trouble; it's what we Nkow that simply "ain't so."

Answer 5

Harvard

Yale

MIT

Cal Tech

Stanford

UC Berkeley

Columbia

Princeton

John Hopkins

Shall I go on? cause I could...

Stop believing in everything you hear and do some thinking.

We rank low on some comparison tests - but are we truly that low? We teach *every* child - many countries in comparison tests are not as diverse as us, and kids test out of the system - some countries do not even claim to educate everyone.

We live in a system where personal responsibility and drive are key - A child from rural Mississippi can grow up to be a doctor (see James Hardy) but a child from rural China has no chance whatsoever.

Answer 6

It's not about the methods as much as it is the value, or the lack thereof, placed on education.  I have taught school in Estonia, the USA and am now in China.  You want to know why the USA has such low scores when compared to other countries?  The scholars here often study for two or three hours each night--or more!  My third graders do.  I am not saying that is healthy, but the fierce competition for jobs demands it.  Many scholars in the USA are L-A-Z-Y!  I know because I have taught them.  The value on education just isn't there.  Try teaching abroad and you'll see!  Cheers!  :-)