Will The Global Economy Help Or Hurt The Next Generation Of Americans?

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Our schools teach American students to be good at memorization. To
be able to spit out recorded information. "You do have the knowledge but you are
basically robots with skin; machines, tape recorders that teachers use to record
their information. At the end of a chapter, they rewind you and press the 'play'
button to see if you can repeat everything they said."1 Also, our schools are
not stressing the importance of math and science. Because of this fact, foreign
born workers such as engineers are taking over the jobs American workers could
have. Our students need to be truly smart because memorized skills can only go
so far. Grades cannot always determine the real skills of the students. Anybody
can receive a diploma but what do these grades really mean? Not much unless a
student can apply their memorized skills for the new way of work. "Just possibly
we have a surplus of graduates and a scarcity of real skills."2 The improvement
of our educational system, not the number of ...

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skills and think on their own. Reading and math
skills may be second out of 31 nations but what you may not know is "23% of
Americans don't finish high school compared to Japans 2%"6 Also, "American
students attend school the least amount of days (180 in fact) compared to other
economically strong countries such as Britain's 192 days, Japan's 243 and
Germany's 290 days."7 So, we have the highest drop out rate and we spend the
least amount of time in school. These numbers could explain why our students are
behind intellectually with other countries. This could mean our economy may
suffer as well. What can we do to improve this though? Already, more colleges
are "lowering admission ...

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