When did the US education system failure to educate became a dismal fight were losing with no foreseeable answer? WHAT's Happenin' will Disappoint any parent
As the country rolls into the 21st century, many unsuspecting challenges force us as a nation to reshape our thinking and ideology on how to raise & shape our Millenials or more affectionately GENERATION "Y". Gen Y (babies born between 1980-2K) youngsters has new challenges that their Grandparents & Generation "X" (unknown) Mommies & Daddies had never experience. After successfully prepareness for the "Y2K" scare, 9/11/2K1 thrust Americans N2 global terrorism on domestic soil. Not only our Nation's economy had a disturbing shake-up but so did our security which for the 1st time allow us 2 focus spending on protecting our Hard & Soft targets. We even committed unprecedented amounts of BILLIONS of dollars to fighting wars with Iraq & Afghanistan, not to mention N.S.A. Domestic Spying into Cyber-terrorism, but even creating a new government agency Homeland Security.
Well with all recommittment resources being spent, something had to suffer...Our children's education. Over the last 15 years, the US has fallen way of the map when it comes to keeping up wit other countries around the world...here's some SHOCKING numbers. 'The
literacy rates among fourth grade students in America are disturbing. 66% of all U.S. fourth graders scored "below
proficient" on the 2013 National Assessment of Education
Progress (NAEP) reading test, meaning that they are not reading at
grade level. Even
more alarming is the fact that among students from low-income
backgrounds, 80% score below grade level in reading. Reading
proficiency among middle school students isn't much better. On the
2013 NAEP reading test, about 22% of eighth graders scored
below the "basic" level, and only 36% of eighth
graders were at or above grade level. On a high school level, the stats get even more disturbing..In
the growing global marketplace, students will need to excel in both
math and science to compete internationally as engineers, scientists,
physicians, and creative entrepreneurs. 'Yet, in a 2012 analysis of
student performance on the Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA), the U.S. placed 27th out of 34 countries in math
performance and 20th in science performance.
Of course, considering the OVERCROWDING of our Inner City schools (a 45-1 teacher-student ratio), overworked and underpaid teaching professionals. With that being said and Despite
decades of effort, our test scores are not improving significantly. According
to the 2012 Nation’s Report Card, average math and reading scores
for 17-year-olds have remained relatively stagnant since the 1970s.' (studentsfirst.org)
College students well young ones to speak, didn't fair well either. 'The
countries surveyed are the 34 members of the OECD — which
include many of the most economically advanced countries as well as
emerging countries, including Turkey and Mexico — as well as
nonmembers Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi
Arabia and South Africa.
Here
are some of the findings, which look at data during the recent
worldwide financial downturn:*The
United States ranks 5th in the attainment of a college degree among
25-64 year-olds, but 12th when considering 25-34 year-oldsIn
2011, some 42% of American adults aged 25 to 64 had a higher
education degree. Only Canada (51%), Israel (46%), Japan (45%) and
the Russian Federation (54%) had higher attainment levels among
this age group. But 43% of 25-34 year-old Americans had attained a
college education, which was above the OECD average of 39% but far
behind Korea, with a 64% tertiary attainment rate among this age
group.' (Washington Post)
If were going to have our most precious national resource "OUR CHILDREN' be competitive wit the rest of the world in employment opportunities, finding inventive ways or somehow investing so we decrease the class size & raise the pay of our overworked educators. Parents stay vigilant about your children.....For our future!! Peace
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