USA Schools: Laughing Stock of the Globe?
USA Schools - Laughing-Stock of the Globe?
The field I have chosen to work in on the internet, Education and Education Reform, is probably one of the toughest, and most needed, of all possible areas. During the last year, I have made enormous strides in establishing myself as somewhat knowledgeable (and possibly even expert) in the field of Education and Education Reform.
In fact, I scour newspapers, the internet, and many other resources, to bring current educational news, both good and bad, to my readers. Every parent, teacher and taxpayer can benefit from the information provided for them on Straighten-Out Public Education NOW!.
Most people are not aware of the terrible results of the education turmoil in our public schools. Depending on which international test results you refer to, the USA is ranked from twelfth to twenty-fourth among developed nations. And those are the results even though we send our best and brightest students to compete.
Frankly, USA public schools are the laughing stock of the globe. Yet, our citizens either don’t know, or don’t believe, how badly U.S. education has deteriorated. Even when they become convinced there is a problem, they either believe the situation is hopeless or it’s someone else’s problem, somewhere else. Unfortunately, even our best schools are inferior when compared globally.
American business can not find enough skilled employees in the states, so they must outsource to other countries, especially India, to find the qualified personnel they need. This is true, even when they make formalized attempts to increase the number of U.S. citizens in their workforce, as A.T.T. and other large conglomerates have tried to do.
Why can they not find qualified personnel? Well, when you realize that drop out rates are averaging 50% in many areas, and actually are 75% in some of our largest urban areas, it’s not surprising that we are not producing competent workers. A 25% graduation rate is alarming enough, but even more disturbing is that students who DO graduate often are woefully unprepared to seek gainful employment, with many unable to read, write or compute math adequately.
Our public school system is broke and needs fixing. But think tanks and politicians propose solutions that are not only unworkable, they are prohibitively expensive. Most require a timeline of 15 years or more to improve our schools.
I am attempting to market a book that spells out the problems in public schools from A to Z and also offers a common sense workable solution that could turn ALL schools in the USA around. The author was a Master Teacher over a span of 50 years and specialized in helping problem students from all socioeconomic levels and familial situations excel.
This Master Teacher also has CDs & DVDs of parenting and teaching success training that would be so valuable to students and schools and society. In addition, he successfully marketed a Drug Abuse Prevention Teaching Plan that was implemented by the U.S. Military in it’s schools worldwide in the 80’s. I’ve looked at this teaching plan and, with a little updating and some new graphics, it could be a valuable teaching tool for fighting drug abuse here in our schools NOW!.
EDin08.com, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in conjunction with the Ely Broad Foundation, has spent millions of dollars to attempt to focus the Presidential political debates on the education issue. They have the money but are having minimal-to-no success because they have no plan to improve schools. I have the plan, but no money to publicize it.
Individuals in the know have stated that our public education fiascos are a matter of national security. When three out of every four young persons in our inner cities do not graduate, we see a marked increase in gang violence and other crime. Graduates from our public schools, even when they graduate with honors, are having to take remedial courses just to succeed in basics in college. Institutes of higher education, combined with American businesses, spend billions of dollars on remediation of students who do not have the necessary foundation for college success, or to train personnel who do not have rudimentary work or communication skills.
I am trying to bring the answer to our public education fiasco to the public, which so desperately needs this solution. I may not have discovered a cure for cancer, but I believe I have discovered a cure for the poison that our public schools have become to our society.
I am not an alarmist. I was a successful business woman for years offline. I’ve spoken to groups ranging in size from ten to over a thousand. I enjoy sharing valuable information, especially when I can use humor to deliver the message. But no matter how expert I may have been offline, I am struggling to get the message out online.
People don’t want to hear the truth, preferring to believe that moving a child to a “better” school will make a difference. No matter how well a particular school appears to be functioning (e.g. no 3rd grade students plotting to kill a teacher), our best schools are inferior to our global competition.
People need to wake up and recognize the problems. So, as a grandmother concerned about the educational future of American students, I continue on!
Thank you,
Brennan Kingsland
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