The Importance Of Education In The United States

The United states is undoubtedly one of the better counties in the world. The U.S has a high ranking status in bounteous fields such as space research, quality of life, sports and movies but in one area the U.S is lacking. The Education system in the United States has been steady if not slightly climbing in the past few decades but, so is the rest of the world and they are climbing the education ladder as a much more rapid pace than the U.S, especially in the math and science subjects. Even though the U.S isn’t dead last, it’s not even in the top 30. Around the world 15 year olds in 2012 took the “Program for International Student Assessment and the scores shows that the United States scored a 48, ranking 35. At first a rank of 35 doesn’t
The reality in America is that Two out of three eighth-graders can’t read proficiently, Nearly two-thirds of eighth-graders scored below proficient in math, Nearly three out of four eighth-12th-grade students cannot write proficiently. All these students that do stay in school and finish are being sent out into the world with less than adequate education to actually get them a head. A study of 27 industrialized countries found that the United States ranked 25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in reading. For the U.S to continue to be a superpower and allow the next generation to be able to compete with our foreign competitors, the United States needs to work on their students for a change because at this rate the once great superpower of the world is going to be nothing but mediocrity.
About 1.1 million students drop out annually. What this means is that over one million people go out into the real word with little education to earn them a job with a sustainable living wage, which only contributes to the economy issue. Most high school dropouts do not have any redeeming qualities that employers look for so they have to choice to settle with a minimum wage job, if any job at
More money is spent on welfare programs than the average American child’s education. Teachers are underpaid and schools are underfunded. All these trigger student receiving mediocre, at best, education that leaves them struggling in the dust racing to try and catch up to our foreign neighbors that dominate the workforce. If the United States continues at the rate at which they are going, the U,S. will no longer be a world