Essay On American Education

Education is what runs countries; it is the lifeline to the next generation to make things better. Without education history will repeat itself, we would continue to make the same mistakes we made a thousand years ago or it would holt the process of evolution for our species. Without education we couldn’t move forward. With India being 75,000 they should have one of the best education in the world well that is simply not true. In recent years India has gone from a third world country into a developing country and the education system is changing in a very positive way. When it comes to American education and India education it varies in a lot of different ways. With this new success India can change its future for the better. In ancient times,

India has a strong focus on academic subjects with very little involvement for extracurricular activities. India schools method tend to emphasis rote learning and memorization(internet source 1) They don’t focus on the new strategies that American education focus on such as Universal design learning or deffentitation learning. India education system is structured as followed. Pre School is not compulsory; the Montessori system is especially popular at the preschool level (internet source 1). Private play school is catering for children between the ages of 18 months and three (internet source), kindergarten is divided into lower kindergarten (for three-to four year olds) and upper kindergarten (for four to five year olds)(internet source 1), Primary school first to fifth standard, middle school fifth to eight year old, secondary school ninth through tenth, higher secondary or pre university 11th and 12th grade, Undergraduate BA is a three year degree. Specialized courses such as medicine and engineering can be longer. Post Grad is one year

This is largely due to the new programs and drives to increase the enrollments of remote areas enrollment rate has increased to 96% since 2009, and girls make up 56% percent of new students between 2007 and 2013(internet source 2). There is a clear problem of access to schooling has been addressed, many improvements to infrastructure have been prioritized(internet source 2) India has more than 1.4 million schools open and 7.7 million teachers so that 98% percent have an upper primary school walking distant from their houses(internet source 2). Despite the success has had with lower level education, they are still having an issue on making students continue their learning to higher education. Nationally 29 percent of children drop out before completing five years of primary school and before 43 percent before upper primary school (internet source 2). India is one of the most unsuccessful countries of schools and they are top five in national drop outs between 6 to 11 years old and the total number is about 1.4 million kids (internet source 2). Even with the high number of teachers India still has a shortage of 689,000 teachers, the schools are not up to high quality schools either because only about 53% schools have girls toilets and 74 percent have access to drinking water, which means that if you are a lower class you are in a school that can’t support the needs of its