Should acamedic standards in the US be raised to....?

Question

Should American academic standards, from first to twelveth grade, be raised to allow America to compete with the world educationally and economically easier, have a better economy, and maybe a better society?

If so, why do you believe the standards should be raised?

And if you don't agree, explain why.

Answer 1

Yes.
The problem is that we as parents and students are under the assumption that we are going to be adequately prepared for the real world after completing school. If you were to examine education systems from other countries.
Japan for instance requires enterance exams to attend senior high-school. The pressure of attending certain high-schools is so great that the students usually go to a special school just to prepair for the entrance exams for high school. They also teach certain subjects thatt we do not. For instance music programs are manditory in Japan. In the United States we are lucky if the music programs in our schools survive cuts in our schools due to lack of money. This is a shame because music has been proven to have a serious impact on how well our students do in school, and even effect the drop out rate.
Japan also places a high value on teaching outside of school. If you were to go into a typical Japanese home you wouldn't find the same percentage of children watching TV and playing video games until their eyes bleed, because in Japan you don't do well in school and continue into college, you will likely work in a sweat shop where they work 12+ hours a day and make next to nothing.
In the United States we go by the exact opposite philosophy. When our children don't do well in school we automatically want to blame the schools. So in turn they lower the bar giving us the false sense that we are ok. When our student per capita aren't showing the graduation and college completion rate that we want, we just make it easier for them.
In the global scale America's educational system is a joke. That is why everything we invent, Japan and other countries make better, and cheaper.
This is very interesting since Japan only starting embracing Western culture and technology in the early 1900's. But it hasn't stopped them from improving our designs on:
the automobile, computers, video games, and most electronics in general.
All the things that we need are being made in Japan. Most of our money is leaving our country at light speed to Japan because our mentality sucks. In turn they refuse to buy American made products, and why should they, our are inferior, and more expensive.

Answer 2

He has to get the greater youthful into the "socialism warehouses" by some ability. What i'd prefer to renowned is, why is Obama kvetching with regard to the severe fee of coverage, whilst college training has DOUBLED in my state's prepaid college software interior the final 5 years? Why would not he attempt to regulate those expenses?

Answer 3

No. We probably have more disabled people than in any of those countries. Even some of our standards now are unfair to those people.