I read Dwayne’s and Amber’s article that it says U.S has poor education system, and the U.S should spend money on education system to boost, and this will not let the U.S have this kind of financial crisis. Before the U.S spends their money on education system, the U.S needs to know what the main problem the U. S is having, and how they will solve them. Both Dwayne and Amber mentioned lots of thing about problems in education system, but I do not agree with that the lack of concern for student at a college is also one of the problems in the education system, but I think the U.S should concern about K-12 first, then it is not late to solve the problem in the university education system. Thus, I think the U.S should focus on K-12 first.
According to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), it tests math, science, and readings to 15 year-old students, and 57 countries participate for this. The U.S is ranked 30th in science 34th in math out of 57 countries, and the U.S had problem with collecting data for reading section, so their ranks are omitted. As we see that data, the U.S education is below the average. Finland is ranked 1st in overall, so the U.S tried to benchmark the Finland’s education systems. Finland primarily focuses on readings, the 61% of elementary student in Finland read newspapers, and these could be school newspaper, or regular newspaper. In addition, the school provides more chance to debate with classmates. Thus, it makes each student has his or her own thought on the topics. Second, Finland spends lots of money on teacher’s salaries. It does not mean that the teacher’s salary is just high. To be a teacher in Finland, the teacher should be qualified for their high standard of requirements, so the every teacher is well trained. Third, the school provides classes for each student’s level, so if a student A is not good at math, the school provides lower level of math class for student A, and similar students. If a student B is good at science, the school provides advanced science class for student B. However, interest thing is most students in Finland are not embarrassed even though they get into lower level classes.
In conclusion, if the U.S spends money for the qualified teacher, more libraries, variety levels of classes, the U.S’s education system will be improving fast. Even though the U.S spends more money on education system, the result would not come out immediately, but the great result would come out after ten years from now. Thus, I think the spending money on education is the one of the U.S government’s long-term risk management.
http://dwang9.blogspot.com/2009/03/public-education-system.html
http://rmi4350.blogspot.com/2009/03/problems-with-public-education-system.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/175894
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/2/0,3343,en_32252351_32236191_39718850_1_1_1_1,00.html
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