Natalie Perez
Vanessa O’ Connor
Eng. 50
21 May 2018
American education vs Foreign Country education
Everybody has a way of gaining and getting their own education in any language, state or country, unfortunately there are certain countries that do not get benefited for the credit of education and that is not enough. According to Malcom Gladwell from the book Outliers, he picked Finland to contrast with. Canada performs almost as well as Finland, but it is a sociocultural and its much more similar to the USA. I would say that Canada has similar effects at play but, there is considerable emphasis on creativity and equality. The American education system has made strides towards improvement, by encouraging hard work is a key to success. However the system does not take in to consideration other elements such as equal opportunities and growth mindset which inhibits the success of students.
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For instance Honors classes, Honors classes are a benefit privileged classes that when a student’s GPA is above a typical average level and puts the students in a higher advanced level class with other students whose GPA’s statuses match up. It is an educational privilege where it promises students to get a step forward towards their careers for when he or she wants to attend to a high standard college, university, or military. On the other hand when a students GPA is high sometimes depending on the schools and what grade the student is at times the school will have him or her the student skip a grade or a couple of grades and put him or her a higher grade and higher chances to graduate