In today’s increasingly globalized world, it is critical that a nation’s education system surpasses that of other countries in order to raise a nation of intellects to go along with the superiority of the country that it is tied to. This, in fact, is an area that America fails in heavily.
America, one of the world’s greatest countries, comes along with one of the world’s most corrupt education system known to man. Compared to many other countries, America is lacking in terms of education, which is baffling considering that America apparently has one of the best economies internationally. A brief list of reasons why America’s education system is inferior compared to other countries is because the government doesn’t invest enough in schools,
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Pasi Sahlberg, a Finnish education expert and the director of the Center for International Mobility and Cooperation in Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture, says, “No high-performing nation in the world has been successful using the policies that the United States is using." (Tung) His statement on the issue of standardized testing in the United States validates the fact that the way that America is issuing these wasteful and pointless tests that are being used to evaluate the potential of the students. Why this is so is because it creates an environment in which students are taught content in order to pass a test and not to actually learn and absorb it for the betterment of their personal intellect. In contrast, Finland’s students are only given one standardized test compared to the multitude of tests shoved down the throats of students in America, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act and the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Alongside the standardized testing being ineffective, standardized testing has also created a learning environment in which only test scores are valued and not the student’s creativity and innovation, which is an essentially dehumanizing