Why is the education system in the USA so far behind that of Europe?

Answer 1

Up until college that is true, but it reverses in college generally. Still, that leaves the non-college educated behind.

I think that there are two reasons for this. The first is the European model tends to put people into careers. The model tends to track people along their talents. The American model is a general education model. The second reason is the unfortunate consequence of having once been the world's largest economy and superpower. The EU is a larger economy than the American economy. However, this has meant that in the short run American school kids are exposed to higher average wealth than the average European and they don't have to do anything to get it because it is their parent's wealth. Per capita, Americans make more than Europeans and their children reap both the rewards and penalties of this. It is a terrible thing for a child to not see a connection between the reality of money and their behavior. I don't believe their is a connection between the two.

Finally, I think there are cultural issues. American's learn things as individuals, the consequence to the group is incidental. Small things in Europe tend to favor group interaction more than in America. A serious issue in software engineering in the US is that we train adolescents to be individual problem sovlers but then they must act as group problem solvers in the real world. In engineering this impact is magnified. That is less of an issue in Europe.

Answer 2

Our education system is NOT behind Europe..(You might want to check out the June 5th issue of Newsweek which devotes several pages to this topic) People from all over the world come to our schools and our school system is the model the world is now using.
Schools in Europe are good...many excellent.....but....they are different from ours..& l think your question should read:
"Why are the schools in Europe so different from ours? "

Answer 3

Because we don't make a good enough emphasis on education. Which sucks, becuase when we finally realize that this generation is the future and if most of this generation is failing then the US economy will go down which will affect every living person on the planet and not just here becuase of trade. Some states need to make stricter rules on graduating high school. I believe one state is the first to emplace a law that if you don't graduate you can't get your driver's license.

Answer 4

because USA is a new country

Answer 5

eye didnt' reeilize it wuz! lol