User talk:Jenm202020

American Education

The United States is struggling to compete against other first world countries this is due to our lack of teacher support, the way that we teach in our schools, the way that America views educators and possible lack of funding. The United States spends the most per child on education at $7743.00 a year. Finland which is ranked number one on the PISA Survey is one of the lowest spending at $5653.00 going to each student. (California) The United States spends roughly $2090.00 per student more than Finland and yet they rank 16 ranks higher than U.S. What are they doing that we are not doing? How can we improve our schools to get their scores? Many would argue that America is not the same as the other countries we compete against, yes that is true but what we can look at is how are they educating and what is their school structure like. Not all of these countries educate the same or even look at education exactly the same but they have some common goals. We do spend more per child but we are not ranking where we should be for the amount we are spending. If we spend more than any other country shouldn’t we have better scores to match the money we are spending? This isn’t about who has more students, this isn’t about poor schools where we include free and reduced breakfast and lunch. There are no private schools in Finland all schools are publically financed and there are no tuition fees. This is from pre-k through College. Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling and individual student guidance. This is no small endeavor but it has proven worthwhile for Finland. Could we not do something similar?