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21 looking for signs of collapse in the United States a century, look no further, apparently the last of education need the results of international trials. Far more international perspective in the field - - International students (PISA) assessment of the program found that American high school mathematics in the 65 economic sectors, the number of 31, 23 and 17 in reading and science. Students in the Chinese city of Shanghai, meanwhile, jumped from the top three categories of classification - and they were first tested: "It is a great wake up call," Secretary of Education. Arne Duncan told The Washington Post, the results were published in December. "Every time we have been pleased that the United States are among some of it is our goal to our goal should be at the forefront of world education." The finding that America faces in his state of American Association President Barack Obama, at the conclusion as a "Sputnik moment."
In fact, in the United States with this kind of education system of Sputnik moment - right Sputnik. Six months after the start of the 1957 Soviet satellite that shocked the world, covering a story in Life magazine warned the Americans that the "crisis in education." A photo essay with a 16 - year-old sits in Chicago by liberal groups, and swim team practices with his girlfriend hanging out with the support shown, while his counterpart in Moscow - an ambitious physicist - spent six days in a week , advanced chemistry and physics experiments and studied English literature and Russian. The lesson was clear: Education is an international competition and that leads to real consequences of losing.
Fear that American children are falling behind the competition continued, the competitors have changed, altered, an engineer in Shanghai budding rocket scientist to Moscow by a wanna-be.
The final sample of Americans aged 15 years certainly is not to brag about.is. America's competitive spirit, but there is no reason for not so hard to the U.S. in order to be the judge on the basis of their position in the world.
And by this measure, the education system in the United States, but it certainly made significant progress needs to find such a spectacular failure.Literacy among the group of developed countries more or less in the U.S. in 2003 are unchanged from the most recent comparable data. It probably would be unrealistic to expect that the progress is very fast. Kerachsky as Stuart, assistant commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said, "move the needle is too far too fast in the field of education."