Why Are Curriculum Should Be Harder

Why Are Curriculum Should be Harder America’s education is on a down fall. It seems like every year we drop a little more on the world wide rankings. The United States education system is not as competitive around the world as it used to. America is focusing too much on the upper class and not enough on the middle to lower class. The United States is currently ranked around 25th in math, 17th in science, 14th in reading, and 17th overall. But a recently released study by Martin Carnoy, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and his research partner, Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute, argues that this assessment might be too harsh and that, in fact, international education ranking reports misinterpret the
The tests also show that the United States has had a greater improvement in both math and reading than the top-scoring countries, such as Finland, Korea, and Canada.
Rebecca Strauss, associate director for CFR’s Renewing America publications, wrote “The real scourge of the U.S. education system — and its greatest competitive weakness — is the deep and growing achievement gap between socioeconomic groups that begins early and lasts through a student’s academic career, and while America does spend plenty on education, it funnels a disproportionate share into educating wealthier students, worsening that gap,” All this does is allows rich kids to higher education through expensive private schools and forces the middle to lower class people into public schools where the standards of education are low but on the rise. This
A study done by Times Higher Thinking (THE World University Rankings) did a study of the best 400 colleges. Out of the top 26 colleges we have 20 of the 26 best colleges. The best college in the world in California Institute of Technology, then tied for second was Stanford and Oxford (UK), 4th is Harvard, 5th is Mass. Institute of Tech., 6th Princeton, 7th is Cambridge (UK), 8th is Impereal college of London (UK), 9th is California, Berkley, 10th is Chicago, 11th is Yale, 12th is ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland), 13th is UCLA, 14th is Columbia, 15th is Pennsylvania, 16th is Johns Hopkins, 17th University College London (UK), 18th Cornell, 19th Northwestern, the 20th best college in the world is the University of Michigan, the 21st is Toronto (Canada), the 22nd is Carnegie Mellon, the 23rd is Duke University, the 24 is Washington, and tied for 25th are Georgia Tech and the University of Austin Texas. If you look at it collegiately the US is ranked number one but since other countries have great elementary programs and high school programs they don’t need college to be successful. Other countries which advanced high schools will send their academically gifted students to the US or to the UK for college or even Switzerland. Our colleges are in fact the top colleges in the world but our current high school education doesn’t prepare us for