United States and Europe Secondary School Systems: Which Works Best?
The standards that the United States education system uphold are quite different from the standards of that in Europe. There are not only a different culture in both places, but different school culture. This is certainly reflected in each respective country. Education is not one size fits all, at least it shouldn't be and Northern European secondary education demonstrates that along with greater accessibility to higher education and academic diversity, creating a better environment for students to flourish and prepare them for the "real world" while better setting them up for success post secondary school. Despite similar standards of living, the secondary schooling system
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Looking beyond these small pieces of information, in the larger picture the United States he thinks American secondary school system stands on top (Baeder). For one, education is easily accessible students are not limited if they do not have transportation, afford school; uniforms or lunch. The system of education in the United States is unlike other countries in many ways, but one thing that really sets it apart is that they do not have a central Ministry of Education. It does have a Department of Education, but it doesn't run schools or universities. It doesn't write or choose curricula. So each college decides for itself how best to teach its students. This feature creates a flexibility in American education, also why it's considered to have some of the best universities in the world(international …show more content…
Diversity is woven seamlessly into the curriculum, presenting multiple perspectives, thereby encouraging students to learn to view major ideas and events through history through a different cultural lens. For example their textbooks include American, American, Latino and Asian History. Science curriculum is intentionally infused with both a Western and scientific value. Students are often required to be proficient in at least one other language, students however usually study more than one. (Aikenhead, 1997, 2001: Lee & Buxton, 2008). Yes, the rich curriculum is more challenging, but why does hard have to be a bad thing? Data only supports that what they're doing is working, shoot far ahead in nearly subject despite all the " opportunity" being in the United States. Career opportunities may be more lucrative in the United States but it's the European Education that beats out all their American counterparts for the