Why is the american education system so inferior to the english system?
140825
It is not the system, but the respect bestowed on its teachers.  In Britain, teachers/educators are very well respected by the community.  In the US, some view the educators as people who were not good enough to get a regular job and went into teacher.  With this attitude, few that are well suited to be teachers would enter the profession.\n\nIt is not an issue of lowering standards.  The US educational system offers too many choices for its students.  In Europe, in intermediate school, you take exams to determine which field you will go into and your are set/stuck in that path.  In the US, you have too many choices in deciding your future job.
240872
Well it is true that the amount of errors and shorthand in the American's language is increasing with every generation.  However, it is the American language, it's just a form of English now.  It happens over time languages change and branch apart, I wouldn't be surprised that over the next few hundred years the language spoken in England and America would be so different you would have to take classes in one to understand other.
743644
1.  There is never two countries identically for their educational system.  Instead of identity, there may be similarities between them like Canada and United States.\n\nThe grade level is just a very small pie of the whole educational system.  We can not assume that there are two countries have 5 -3-4-4 (US and Canada), so they are the same. They are NOT the same.\n\n2.  There are no criteria for the best one because every system has bad and good aspects.  Some "good" ones are United States, England, Canada, Singapore.\n\n3.   It's hard to determine which one better, like Europe you may have England better than Japan as England is well-known, but we don't know the rest.
1086968
There are two answer for this:\nOne.  In our country we sadly are still so segregated by economics that we only expect the best from one group.  We expect that the lower classes to do the worst and our country has set up institutions that generate the same results year after year.  If you expect someone to do poorly that's what you will get.  In psychology it is called self-fulfilling prophecy.\nTwo.  Sadly, our education system is the same model for the last century and although it worked in the 1920s it can no longer stay at par with the education of other industrial countries.  This country is still receiving and using old frameworks of education to dictate how we educate our children.
461253
It should be unacceptable to allow kids to continue to the next academic level if they are unable to spell and write simple sentences at their current level. The idea of "No Child Left Behind" is a good one, if it were organized differently and funded better. Many international students that I have talked with feel a certain disdain for the level of illiteracy of many American students. Education doesn't seem to be taken very seriously here as compared to many countries in the world. Many students want to take the easiest route possible. That is one of the reasons so many upper level scientific and engineering professionals come from elsewhere, and, according to some of the things I have read, why certain jobs go overseas. The jobs are taken more seriously.
929986
That`s the trouble with the education system, You are only taught what the so called mainstream academics think you ought to know, which is their accepted view of the world and no other alternate theories will be allowed to surface. Children and college students will be drowning in censorship sooner rather than later. The system is fundamentally flawed, and that`s exactly what American academia is looking for. I dread to think how the next generation will turn out, it`s an obscenity.
581776
well i think school systems vary in different states. i always hear about the NY school system where i live, and i think its on the right track right now. also, its a little known fact that the United States has one of the lowest standards of learning in the world. out of the top educated countries(i think about 12) were 10th!!! how embarassing.
1100824
There are problems with the education systems in every country in the world.  To single America out is unfair and biased.
292460
First of all, how do you know that Americans make more spelling mistakes than their British counterparts...do you have a magically nationality tag for everyone you observe in the fora?  Also, if you're going to cast stones, you shouldn't do it in a glass house (your question is grammatically incorrect, which you should know as a Latin student).  "make more spelling mistakes..."\n\nBesides flaws in your logic and empirical method, you should understand that American Standard and British Standard English use different orthographic systems.  In America, one writes color, for example, instead of colour.  \n\nIt is true that there are many poor spellers on the internet.  However, is this related to an inability to spell of is it shorthand that is used in chat rooms, like M8 for mate?  There is an entire lexicon of chat "code: that is used.  All things being equal, there are at least eight times more Americans on the internet than Brits (based on population) so you certainly will see more of them, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are bad spellers.\n\nI might add that the American education system doesn't emphasize rote memorization and doesn't even reward spelling any more.  Many papers are done on computers with software that has spell check, which doesn't facilitate spelling practice.\n\nMay I add also that your prompting..."Because americans..." is begging for insulting comments in context to your question, which is pejorative to begin with (it also assumes every "American" is the same.   By the way, are you referring to Canadians and Mexians and Argentines, too? Because we are all Americans...we just aren't citizens of the United States).  It really interesting to see all the people that profess disliking Americans who nonethelss use Yahoo! (sorry, it is an American service) and somehow think that America became an economic superpower depsite the fact that the country if full of ignorant people (it isn't...Americans are ordinary people who have extraordinary opportunities and use them within a Calvinist cutlure that values success and merit over birth...which is the key to their success).
186475
For the most part it is due to the fact that the American education system fails miserably in its attempt to teach children basic reading and comprehension skills. The system insists on teaching children math skills when they haven't even learned to read.  If the system was restructured to concentrate on reading and comprehension in the first few years, later in schooling the child could easily learn skills for the profession he or she is interested in. I am so thankful that my second and third grade teacher forced me into learning how to read. She kept me after school many a night and drilled reading skills into my cranium gray matter. Her name was Mrs. Wesson of Lincoln school in a town called Freeport Illinois. God rest her wonderful soul!
1002959
Nope we are just all products of the american school system.
677989
The biggest problem in the US as far as school is concerned is the language barrier.  If the schools I have experienced are any indication, there's not much being done about the language problem.  There seems to be this policy of "Learn English" or fall behind, because we teach in one language and one language only.  Its not good.
718365
I'm from Russia and it's long since I finished school.\nThe major difference between USSR education and US education at the times when I studied in school was that US education was more simple and more pragmatic, while our education was more abstract and more directed at "teaching to think on your own" than to teaching some concrete issues you will need at work / in college / etc.\nPartially it's already lost, but nevertheless I think US might benefit from it. Not sure if you're from US, it's a general idea.
691041
Conceptually the French system puts more emphasis on knowledge of facts, tools and methods, which is great for natural sciences and medicine. The U.S. system emphasizes learning how to express your own opinion and how to implement an idea. I find American students more outspoken and independent, while French have more solid factual basis.\n\nBest education? Combination of both - getting a Bac (a high school equivalent) and maybe Bac +3 (undergraduate) in France and then getting a graduate degree in the U.S.
406722
Yes i have lost faith in the American education system by reading some of these questions. When i went to school during the mid 70s Thur the 80s they taught you how to spell and proper grammar.I do not know how some of these young kids make it through college, because they must write reports with proper spelling and grammar. Sigh, they are going to be our future leaders.
72872
Not that many.  America is a meritocracy that awards students that do well, not poorly.
708611
The brits hate americans because in britain they have a "class system" which in america there is also a class system but its alot more prevalent in the UK. The brits instictively want to find out what a persons class system is when they start a conversation and this same need follows them everywhere. A brit wants to feel superior to an American but the problem with the UK is that it has alot of very poor brits. The US has alot of money so brits will throw their "culture" at americans as fast as they can so the can feel they're a higher "class" even if they're a lower class brit.