Monday, December 3, 2012

What will it take for the USA to become the world leader in education?

Finland is # 1
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749880

School Year around the world:
http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/school-years.html

Length of school year graph
http://www.inca.org.uk/Table15.pdf

14 comments:

  1. I think we should just stop trying to become the leader in education. It's going to end up taking a long time and many people will be against what it will take for us to be #1. We should jsut accept the fact that we will not be the best in education.

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  2. I believe we should stop worrying about beating everyone else and just worry about ourselves.

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  3. I believe Americans can and should be number one in education... all it would really take is year round school and more days not asking much In my beliefs

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  4. Teachers actually teaching the students, and students paying attention to the teaching. Its as simple as that.

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  5. High school is like a chore almost for people in the united states, they don't really see its value. Where people in Finland respect school.

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  6. I think that students dont take teachers as surious as they should.

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  7. we need to stop trying to be better than other countries, maybe we wont be the best, its not the worst thing ever, as lomg as americans are getting a good education

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  8. We need to go year round and no breaks

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  9. I agree that we shouldn't try to be better than everyone else as long as we get a good education.

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  10. Even if we did the year round with no break or try to be better for education, you need people willing to cooperate with it.

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  11. We should just accept the fact that we will not be the best in education. I think we should just stop trying to become the leader in education.

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  12. I think we should focus on helping students learn better, rather than focusing on trying to be better than other countries. It would be better for US students.

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  13. i think we should except we will never become the leader of education... there are so many teachers in this country that don't care about the students and their education unlike most of the teachers in other countries.

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  14. I don't think we value education as much as we should. We have so much technology that can do all the things that we would have to study a long time to learn. I think we all kind of view school as just another thing we have to do rather than the privilege that it is. We try to just get through it rather than try hard and excel

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