Arts and Academics Post #4

Our schools are lagging behind the rest of the world. 
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/20/gates-and-weingarten-fixing-our-nation-s-schools.html

3. Schools in other countries have longer school days and longer schools years, and in other countries they often times are much more competitive.


In other countries they focus on helping their teachers, and that's why this country has stayed in the same place while the others have surpassed us. 


We spend a lot of money in the wrong places when it comes education. We aren't making the right investments. They also say though that ist isn't monetary issues, its that on a quarter of the teachers are very good, and we need to the rest to be just as good.


2. How do they know who is a good teacher and not? what are the qualifications of that, and what ways are people hiring that are helpful in finding the appropriate teachers?


What types of investments with money do other countries make when it comes to education that is making them so successful? 


1. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338 The journalist says that the problem with how public school classrooms are run if is that the kids don't stay interested and the classes are just bull.