Education Woes
Despite Schröder’s anti-American rhetoric, Germans and Americans have many things in common. Unfortunately, one of them is flawed public school systems. While US universities are still world-class, our K-12 public school system - when considered as a whole - is pathetic and has been known to be weak for decades. However, German schools now appear to be doing an even worse job educating their students according to the International Herald Tribune.
American teenagers rank higher than the Germans in all three subjects [reading literacy, mathematics, and science] despite studies that found one in 10 young Americans cannot find his country on a blank map of the world.
I have no solutions for reforming public schools. All we've proved in the US is that throwing money at the system doesn't help. My eldest child will be old enough to start school next fall. My wife and I are seriously considering home-schooling.
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