Sarah Elizabeth Carpenter
April 7th
4:50
“Having visited the top public schools in India and China, I can assure you that the future for America's youth is much bleaker than even the greatest skeptics could imagine.”
This is a direct quote from the article that I read for this week. Education is under constant scrutiny for its policies and is rapidly turning more and more of a problem. The US’s drop out rate is constantly increasing and currently only 60 percent of students will graduate. Bush’s 2001 NCLB act has put most students at a disadvantage and many parents feel that it is because of this that our futures are not as bright as those in foreign countries. The article talks a bit about what other countries do within their education system that makes them so elite: more strict, less activities, harsher punishments. Or in other words kids being severely restricted. The article also address parents making their children get out from in front of the TV and into the books.
So the issue here again is the reoccurring issue that is the US matching up with the rest of the world. I was thinking about what types of schools politicians have their own children in and it is private and Montessori schools that win, these schools provide a different type of education that public school doesn’t. And the reason, other than that they can afford it, is because they more resemble the schools in foreign countries. The countries that they travel to on business.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/03/30/cafferty.schools/index.html?iref=newssearch