{"id":425736,"date":"2010-03-14T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f88\/fix-u-s-education-system-its-national-interest-40841\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T07:36:07","slug":"fix-the-u-s-education-system-its-in-the-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/425736","title":{"rendered":"Fix the U.S. Education System: It&#8217;s In the National Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You don&#8217;t need a grade book to realize that our public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/Issues\/Education\" ><font color=\"#000080\">education<\/font><\/a> system is failing to properly prepare our future leaders. With the national dropout rate at almost 30 percent (nearly 50 percent for African American and Hispanic students), the writing is on the chalkboard.<br \/>\nStill, there seems little urgency in Congress to address the sorry state of our country&#8217;s education system.<br \/>\nGiven our fiscal woes, it&#8217;s easy to understand why lawmakers might be more concerned with jumpstarting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/Issues\/Economy\" ><font color=\"#000080\">economy<\/font><\/a> than with fixing the broken education system. But if policymakers continue to ignore the simple fixes that could improve education, we may be on a perilous path to even greater economic stagnation in the decades to come.<br \/>\nIn a compelling report, three of my colleagues at The Heritage Foundation &#8212; Dan Lips, Jennifer Marshall and James Carafano &#8212; argue that our country is quickly losing its global competitiveness because of our failure to produce enough scientists, engineers and mathematicians.<br \/>\nAccording to a 2006 Program for International Student Assessment exam, 15-year-old American students placed a dismal 23rd out of 29 participating countries in mathematics. And in science, students in 16 countries outscored American students.<br \/>\nThis matters, of course, because our country desperately relies on mathematicians and engineers to remain at the cusp of technological advances. For example, Silicon Valley is synonymous with the iPod and iPhone, thanks to the innovative drive of countless scientists and engineers.<br \/>\nOf course, we benefit from the good work of scientists, doctors and mathematicians in other ways, too. The United States leads the world in the fight to find a cure for cancer and AIDS. And thanks to our country&#8217;s engineers, we are building safe and reliable roads, planes and automobiles. In short, we all benefit when our education system succeeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Commentary\/2010\/01\/Fix-the-US-Education-System-Its-In-the-National-Interest\" >http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Com&#8230;ional-Interest<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need a grade book to realize that our public education system is failing to properly prepare our future leaders. With the national dropout rate at almost 30 percent (nearly 50 percent for African American and Hispanic students), the writing is on the chalkboard. Still, there seems little urgency in Congress to address the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}