School

I’m referring to primary and secondary schools, not universities. I’d like input from everyone, but I’m particularly interested in the answers of those who have attended schools in more than one country.

I ask this because as an American educator, I feel frustration at our unrealistic insistence on trying to get everyone to meet basic college prep standards, when not everyone is meant to go to college. I think this is why American public education tends to "dumb down" standards, as opposed to raising the bar of excellence.

I lived in Germany and they seemed to have a much better and realistic educational system than ours, but that was twenty years ago.

Canada and Iceland have excellent public school systems. Illiteracy is almost non-existent in Iceland. Actually Cuba has one of the best free public education systems in the world and has one of the highest litercy rates.

2 Responses

1. Andrew J Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 3:12 am

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2. Imaka Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 3:55 am

   Canada and Iceland have excellent public school systems. Illiteracy is almost non-existent in Iceland. Actually Cuba has one of the best free public education systems in the world and has one of the highest litercy rates.
   References :

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