The world has changed in so many ways since the start of the 21st century. With the internet and mobile communication just within arm’s reach, new possibilities have opened up across the world. In this new world, education has become even more important. The United States, for example, and majority of the west for that matter has experienced its advantage in defense arenas erode, and economics. Although the United States continues to improve in these areas, there’s one category, we continue to fall behind in. Education.
This problem begins early on in the national academic system. The Council on Foreign Relations, for example, conducted a recent study in the U.S. and discovered that education reform and national security declines every year. In other words, failure in educational performance
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As college faculty points the finger at high schools, we must remind ourselves that the criticisms given to high schools, should also be applied to colleges and universities. We also need to remember that high school teacher’s went through college classes out here, and were granted degrees from our schools.
The Overall View
By now I’m sure we’ve all heard of the amount of budget cuts district have gone through over the past decade. But with a combination of budget cuts (resulting in overcrowded schools), poverty levels increasing, political pressure, and distractions at nearly every corner, it’s no wonder why we haven’t overcome this problem yet.
Although we have education officials advocating for systemic change in education the reality is, this is a project that will require more than a few hundred-thousand people. To emphasize, this project will require parents/guardians, government officials, teachers, and everyone else invested in the child's education. There’s a reason why mentors say, “It’s takes a village to raise a child.”
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