Education nation

i'm saying i heard that we spend more money on education here in america than anywhere else in the world, but the kids are learning less here than they do in any other industrialized nation. i'm incredulous. could someone explain to me what this means? are other countries really doing better? and if so, why?

True and its not going to get any better. People want to pour more money into science and math but what about reading and better pay and respect for teachers and other subjects. Half the kids dont know there own history an any others that why we have ignorant politicians who dont know other countries history. Kids who basically drop out in the fourth grade. They want teachers to do more work for less pay and kids are not even taught how to learn just what to learn while japanese kids are being taught memory techniques and study skills.

As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable workforce. Marc Bousquet, a major figure in the academic labor movement, exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education—a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages.

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Can some one please tell me why Horace Mann thought that the nation needed public education to survive. plz

Mann argued successfully that economic wealth would increase through an educated public. It was therefore in the self interest of business to pay the taxation for public education. Mann asserted that education was a natural right for every child. It is a necessary http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/mann.html

This country (USA) is already spiraling down hill. The cost of education is out of reach for some of the brightest kids. Some borrow themselves into debt for a long time after graduation (some may never get out of it). I see two things happening, 1) some of the brightest will not have the opportunities to go to school. 2) some will get a lucrative jobs with foreign companies to get out of debt and usually that is not for the benefit of this nation. This country has a need to support these kids in hopes that they can turn this country around. How’s about free education? In junior colleges, the foreign student paid a lot more tuition then its own citizens. With this in mind, do you think the junior colleges want (profit) more foreign or their own citizens? I just feel that this government is all talk, too busy selling out the country to foreign companies to benefit only themselves, trying to keep up with the have and have not.

You obviously have been listening to lefties who only tell one side of the story. Yes, the cost of education is up, but the amount of grants and financial aid given has decreased the overall cost. Education would be a hell of a lot cheapier if the teachers union were gone. Their benefits are outragous! The BS that they spin about not having enough money to educate our poor children is crap. They can pay for some of their health care premiums and reduce their pension benifits.

As it says on the tin. In terms of social healthcare, education opps for all, no matter their £ status, decent social housing for the less well off, which nation in Europe is considered to be the best?

France was in 2000, since 2000 the WHO hasn't monitored due to complexities. The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems was last produced in 2000, and the WHO no longer produces such a ranking table, because of the complexity of the task. The UK has National Health which is top heavy with Bureaucrats and that fact that all Eastern Europeans are flooding the UK are getting all the free housing, income support and council taxes paid is annoying Brits who have worked all their lives and get nowhere near the same benefits.

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