U.S. Education Rankings Are Falling Behind the Rest of the World

SERVICE-INDUSTRIES FOREMOST

Employment by sector (BLS data) in the US:


It should surprise no one that the Service-Industries are the major-growth employers. And services require for the most part well-trained or educated individuals.

Education is therefore the key-component of any economy seeking higher growth-rates. So why do we require that obtaining a post-secondary degree be so expensive ... ?

 

METHINKS

We must be very-careful about manipulations of the above three issues. They all touch upon fundamental beliefs that are strongly held by entire countries as well as communities inside countries.

My suggestions are:
1) The factor that hinders most school-choice the fact that Americans move around the country for jobs. Which means there can be no long-term planning regarding classes and therefore teachers.That does not happen in Europe because of language differences - so that particular "problem" does not exist.
2) Teachers unions are a necessary part of any economy. They help assure the defense of teachers labor-rights, as they do in any other profession as well.
3) Race/gender have no "theories".They are only a problem where people like to indulge their superiority-complex. Moreover, in any country where there is number-equality of races, there tends also not to exist any truly fanatical problem amongst them. Race becomes a problem when any particular one is in a minority. For which like-people tend to band-together as a "community" seeking self-protection. Key word: "community". Humans like to live amongst people who are most like they are. It's a human frailty that is centuries old - and fortunately it doesn't start major wars as it did in the past.

The human-race is still in expansion across this planet. The mixing of races, customs and beliefs is growing everywhere. Except where beliefs are hardened and kept under control by "religious families". This has happened in some oil-countries. We shall see what occurs to them in another 20-years when non-oil countries no longer employ hydrogen-based fuels for either electric-generation or car-travel.

Most developed countries have learned to live harmoniously regardless of varying religious beliefs. But others not. It takes a damn fine educational-system that trains people to "think for themselves", which then tempers "religious-belief dominance".

Methinks ...

 

US Schools Should Rank Top In The World. Why would we settle for less than the very best?

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE

"America’s public education system is so bad that it is an existential threat to the survival of the republic. The depths to which the teachers’ unions and the Democratic Party have dragged millions of our country’s children" is nothing short of shocking.

Baltimore, an increasingly godforsaken urban landscape:

Since he kept advancing, his mom thought he was getting an education.

He was promoted despite failing almost every class. "Mr. France is average for the environment in which he is “learning.”

Our successful, competitive society requires a solid education. If public schools will or cannot provide it, the parents need to be free to move their children to a school that will.

"Mr. France, on those rare occasions when he showed up for class and listened to his teachers, was likely told that America is a systemically racist society, which means that he has no chance. So why do homework? The Left’s “equity” campaign is perhaps the only thing that could possibly make an incompetent public school system even worse."

 

I will repeat what I said. Population counts are irrelevant. And so is comparing the results of PISA numbers.

PISA is an analysis of intellectual competence (of student-age individuals) that is conducted in the native language to 15 year-olds.

I suggest therefore that what is far more important is to understand well what percentage of the total number of secondary-school students continue BEYOND high-school into degree-earning programs to enhance their intellectual-capacity. I suggest testing that-group is far more important in order to obtain substantial understanding of a country's general intellectual-capacity.

And, of course, no institution (that I know of) does that today. That's all I was getting at ... !