Education in the United States
James Hite
Professor Truong
English 101
18 May 2013 Education in the United States
This great country on the federal, state, and local level needs to invest more money in educating its citizens. In the past the United States boasted a higher percentage of technically trained, well educated, top of their field professionals to fulfill the needs of not only this great country, but those of the rest of the world too. However those days seem to be over. Today most highly technical and intellectual jobs such as engineering, chemistry, physics, and research doctors are held by individuals who were educated elsewhere. Students in the United States test among the lowest in the world in the basic skills of math, science, and English. It is evident that educating the Americans of the future generation has somehow gotten way too low on this country’s priority list. We have done a poor job of properly educating our citizens in recent years to be able to compete in the world market of tomorrow. The United States should pass legislature mandating higher pay for K-12 teachers, higher test scoring standards for schools, teachers, and students, smaller classrooms, and colleges should start actively recruiting prospective students in public schools at the elementary age, which is much earlier than they do today. There are many who believe that our teachers here in the United States are severely underpaid. In an article in Weatoday by Tim Walker called “Low Pay Comes at a Higher Cost for Kids” The average construction worker in South Dakota makes about thirty-five thousand dollars per year. This is more than the average teacher makes per year nationwide. Many across the country believe that this is unacceptable and is causing our country to fall far behind the rest of the world in its ability to give its citizen’s a quality education. According to the same article there are “two key factors that determine how
Professor Truong
English 101
18 May 2013 Education in the United States
This great country on the federal, state, and local level needs to invest more money in educating its citizens. In the past the United States boasted a higher percentage of technically trained, well educated, top of their field professionals to fulfill the needs of not only this great country, but those of the rest of the world too. However those days seem to be over. Today most highly technical and intellectual jobs such as engineering, chemistry, physics, and research doctors are held by individuals who were educated elsewhere. Students in the United States test among the lowest in the world in the basic skills of math, science, and English. It is evident that educating the Americans of the future generation has somehow gotten way too low on this country’s priority list. We have done a poor job of properly educating our citizens in recent years to be able to compete in the world market of tomorrow. The United States should pass legislature mandating higher pay for K-12 teachers, higher test scoring standards for schools, teachers, and students, smaller classrooms, and colleges should start actively recruiting prospective students in public schools at the elementary age, which is much earlier than they do today. There are many who believe that our teachers here in the United States are severely underpaid. In an article in Weatoday by Tim Walker called “Low Pay Comes at a Higher Cost for Kids” The average construction worker in South Dakota makes about thirty-five thousand dollars per year. This is more than the average teacher makes per year nationwide. Many across the country believe that this is unacceptable and is causing our country to fall far behind the rest of the world in its ability to give its citizen’s a quality education. According to the same article there are “two key factors that determine how