Education in America

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From Melody Barnes at the White House:


The state of the American education system today is unacceptable. As many as one quarter of American students don’t finish high school. We've fallen to ninth place in the proportion of young people with college degrees. The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations.

For the sake of the next generation, and America's economic future, this has to change.

Providing our nation's students with a world-class education is a shared responsibility. We can't out-compete the rest of the world in the 21st century global economy unless we out-educate them. It's going to take all of us -- educators, parents, students, philanthropists, state and local leaders, and the federal government -- working together to prepare today’s students for the jobs of the 21st century.

That's why I want to hear from you. As President Obama's chief advisor on domestic policy, I focus much of my time on education reform. As part of the White House’s new Advise the Advisor program, I've posed a few key questions for parents, teachers and students to answer so we can get a sense of what’s working in your communities -- and what needs to change.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/education-newsletter

Comments

[a1cmustangpilot.livejournal.com]

...and most of this should fall on the lazy parents not getting their children to actually do their school work, support their endeavors, get them that needed help, and for the lazy kids to actually engage themselves in education. Let's first start by getting rid of all iphones, ipads, and mobiles.
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