Why Education Systems Has Success, And The Lack Of The American Education System

There was a time when America’s education system was top-notch according to the culture and society. With time, a myriad of things has changed, but unfortunately what has not evolved is the American education system. The country is still following a system which was not designed for the current global economic climate. Equality, as positive as it sounds is not as sufficient when it comes to education. The system treats students equally yet expect a similar culmination and outcome. Every child has his individuality and distinct abilities; one cannot judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. Conversely, a few of the prominent reasons why the education system is failing are overcrowded schools, the rise of technology, and following the same old school hours.

America used to thrive on its education system and that is why it became one of the greatest nations in the world. Education is the backbone of our country, and we must give high priority to improve its current condition. Unfortunately, in the past couple of decades, the education system has been regressing. It has been on the decline and not as effective. The quality of education in a country has an influence on GDP growth, social cohesion and social well being in general. In order to improve the quality of education in the U.S., the following must be taken into consideration: the structure of our education system must be reanalyzed, we must compare and contrast our education system to systems of other countries with higher rankings, and finally, there must be a solution.

Education plays important role in society. It determines the final development of an adult’s personality. In today’s society most jobs require a University degree. To receive a University degree students need to rely on a good education system. Does America provide this? The American education system has relied on the grade point average system for a long time. The problem with this is there is not a universal GPA grade point system varying from course to course. This creates an inaccurate way to determine ones overall achievements. Teachers have different standards than others, grade inflation can occur and students can be exposed to different learning environments. Does the education system need to change to create fairness?

Many people know that the U.S. does not rank very high in education. You hear about how they are always trying to improve education, but they still fall short of where they strive to be. In Anu Partanen’s “Finland’s School Success, What Americans Keep Ignoring” she addresses this issue. She points out what Americans are doing wrong, what Finland is doing right, and how the U.S. can improve the education system in many ways.

The United States is one of the best country in many areas such as technology and health care or education, but compared with other develop nations, the united states education system is still behind many country including United Kingdom, Japan, China. America’s standards of education are far lower than several other countries, because the American public education systems is less effective, students are lack of motivation to learn. According to Michael Moore, in the book Idiot Nation, and John Taylor Gatto in Against School, they argue that the education system in the United States is deeply flawed. America’s schools having a poor curriculum, many facilities are in bad conditions and lack of resources that students need to learn. The

There are already many articles about how Asian countries are surpassing America in education, but what about Finland? Finland, which is about the size of Minnesota, is top ranking in math, science, and language arts. Despite this, Finland’s education standards are more laid-back than ones in America. America's education system is lackluster in comparison to other countries, but it’s fixable by recognizing the problem, observing other countries, and updating our own standards.

The Finnish Model will work well on reforming the U. S. because it provides equal education and opportunity for everybody. In the country of Finland, “there were no high-tech, interactive whiteboards in her [Kim’s] classroom…no police officer in the hallway” (p. 83). This suggests that these students do not need fancy equipment or armed protection to be the smartest kids in the world. In addition, the Finnish want everyone to be successful despite their circumstances at home, and one way they do so is possessing academic and vocational schooling. This gives students a choice between two equitable options of education instead of forcing them down a one-way path to graduation. The U.S., in my opinion, would greatly benefit from allowing this option in their schooling system because it allows students freedom over their future.

For instance, in Korea their “pressure cooker”(24) style of education “school never stopped”(57). In comparison, Korean student typically went to school from 8am to sometimes 10-11pm, while in the United States generally school is from about 8am to usually at the latest 4pm. With this style of schooling the Koreans never use excuses found commonly in the United States such as, “the test was unfair or not everyone can be good at math”(57) instead their mindset was “You didn’t work hard enough”(57). While Ripley and Korean Education minister Lee Ju-Ho think this method is extreme she uses this comparison to show that their is no denying that working harder in school whether it be more rigorous or lengthy improves scores tremendously. In Finland the utopia of education, many comparisons were linked to the teachers as well as students. In Finland “all education schools were selective”(85) meaning that most finnish teachers had received “the highest levels of education in the world”(85), in comparison to the United States where an Oklahoma algebra one teacher’s college had “low standards and little rigor”(88). This comparison also shows how seriously foreign countries take teaching compared to the United States where “jobs were protected by powerful unions”(84). Many finnish kids also were

The United States of America is ranked twentieth in the world for education which sounds shocking, but after taking a look at how other countries run their schools, it is easy to see why we are so far behind. In Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next, Moore takes a look at the education systems in countries across Western Europe and discovers that there are vast differences in how the world runs their schools.

Success is everyone’s ultimate goal. In today’s day and age, every country wants in the fight to become the best of the best. This mindset of becoming the superlative holds a lot of value to a country’s leaders, as they believe it will lead them and their people to be the front-runners of the world. Education has long been an area in which countries feel indicates how successful they are and will be. As a result, educators continue to use a variety of methods to ensure that their country’s children are receiving a superior education. While many are aware of the educational system in Japan or the United States, France continues its fight to offer the best schooling in the world. In hopes to achieve this objective, French educators have

In the documentary the country of Finland is mentioned. The public education system within the United States would be much better off resembling that of Finland. Although in Finland same as the U.S. there are teachers unions and teachers are granted tenure, due to a 1970 mandate in Finland’s education system. This mandate states that all teachers that teach above kindergarten must possess at least a master’s degree. This factor has sets their education system apart from ours and has improved their education system. Due to this reform Finland’s students have the highest math and science literacy, according to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), among all of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and development

Based on the numerous sources of sound data available, U.S. is currently out-educated. On the latest Program for International Student Assessment form 2015, the United States scored an average in reading and science, and below average in math. Results had been unchanged since 2000. U.S. scores are behind global leaders like Finland, South Korea and Canada. It is not a surprise that Shanghai outscored every other country, in all areas tested.

Different regions and cultures made different ways of educating. Asia always dominates in the rankings of the OECD on the PISA (Worldwide study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations of 15-year-old school pupils ' scholastic performance in mathematics, science, and reading.) tests. More specifically, China has always ranked in at least the top 10. In the 2012 release of the OECD rankings, Shanghai China ranked number one on all reading (570), Mathematics (613) and Science (580) tests while the United States ranked 36th in mathematics, 25th in reading and 28th in science. The United States scarcely ranks in the top 10. Why? China and the United States school systems and students

Finland, South Korea, and Singapore have built very strong educational systems since the late 1970s when America was at the top as an educational leader. Finland that once was at the bottom of the educational latter is now ranking at the top on PISA assessments in math, science, and reading. Over 50% of finish adults have completed a higher education program and the government covers 98% of the costs for these adults to go to college. Finland seems to of found a way of giving all students an equal education and providing a smaller gap between students test scores on standardized testing. This even takes into account students that are emigrating from other areas in many of these areas do not speak the language in Finland. Also the students are still being able to be reached and achieving great strides according to standardized tests. Finland is only going up as far as educational goals go and test scores. Despite the number of immigrants that have been recently coming to the area. Finland attributes a lot of their success to highly educated teachers, which the government pays for their education. Finland also educates their teachers in a thinking curriculum for all their students. School systems also give teachers the opportunity to teach what they need to teach, they are not worried about tangible evidence to show the public. Most of the tests that the students go through are to evaluate higher order thinking and performance skills. This is the opposite direction

The article by Herbert J. Walberg, explains that the nation is very productive, yet schools within the same nation are not (“Students in the U.S. Don’t Go to School Enough to Achieve”). He compares the U.S. and Korean students and finds that Korean students spend far more time in school than U.S. students. While U.S. students are