WHY WERE FALLING BEHIND???

Why is that American education is falling it’s student? How about the fact that we are spending more many on education then other countries and were still behind and being out perform by those countries that spend less money than us. You can look at any research that has been done about education within the last decades and the results will show that America’s education ranking is decreasing. That is why I thinking plans such as Race to the Top will create changes in the America’s education system and maybe within the next couple decades we are able to find the perfect education system that will allow our future children to compete against other foreign countries.


As I was blogging through other blogs I came across this Democratic website (www.democratics.org) and toward the top of the page there was a short paragraph that discusses how Democratic party’s goals is forth expanding opportunity in education and ways of doing this is providing every child with a world class education, and it went on say that we as democratic party want to meet our responsibilities to America’s children by ensuring that ours school have resources that will allow student to succeed and meet high standards. This is the kind of energy we need in order for education to improve in America.


Just to understand what is that those countries who are ranked at the top do. I did some research and came across couple researches but this research called WHY WERE FALLING BEHIND, got my interest. The researches basically focus on nine nations that outranked American consistently, on the Programmer for International Student Assessment (PISA). The nations included Finland, Hong Kong, South Korea, and our neighbor Canada. As I mention earlier blog post the research focus on areas such as reading, math, and science and base on the standard testing this research concluded that American student are far behind in other nations when it comes to performing the three areas Mathematic, Reading and Science. Below is quote from the common core which is the company that did the research WHY WERE FALLING BEHIND.

While American students are spending
endless hours preparing to take tests of their
basic reading and math skills, their peers
in high-performing nations are reading
poetry and novels, conducting experiments
in chemistry and physics, making music, and
studying important historical issues. We are
the only leading industrialized nation that
considers the mastery of basic skills to be the
goal of K–12 education.