Unfortunately, the US is not the powerhouse we used to be. Some recent stats:
- In one generation, we have fallen from first to ninth in the world in percentage of population who graduates from college.
- Countries who seem to be more successfully educating their youth: South Korea, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and Norway.
- In Science, 15 year olds rank 16 out of 30 countries. In Math, we were trailing 23 other countries!
Source (NY Times, 2010), (Washington Post, 2007)
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I always manage to be surprised when a new study comes out with similar results. Then I see how we treat the best and brightest students and compare it to other countries… and suddenly these studies don’t seem so far-fetched.
The U.S. could be #1 again, but it needs to work at it, and I don’t know if it will.
it’s funny, we are trying to change our model of education but china is trying to change their model to mimic ours… no easy answers…
I’ve seen this between the U.S. and China, and several other countries in South America and the U.K. I wonder what organizations exist that focus on combining the best parts of different system.
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