ASIAN AND AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS

Asian and American School Systems

Asian and American School Systems

Introduction

In the past twenty years the United States school system has been accumulating rather a bit of criticism. Evidence displays that the joined States has been lagging exponentially contrasted to nearly all the industrialized countries. This expressly refers to Asian nations that are statistically blowing the U.S. out of the water. Recent review outcomes in the universal subject of numbers show us that the U.S. eighth graders have fallen behind, while the twelfth grade grade showed only slight enhancement (appositive). This means that the U.S. students are barely floating above water, where as, Asian students have constructed some sort of super boat (appositive). Yet we all identify that not any one apparatus is flawless, and are usually leaking water in the most unnoticeable spot. Before one realizes the difficulty, the boat is sinking.

Discussion

The paper tells us that in an Asian classroom students will seem an unbelievable amount of pressure starting from grade school and up, while U.S. teachers are too afraid to raise the bar because of potential discouragement of the student.(Tyack, 2008) We examine clues from the article “Strengths, weaknesses, and lessons of Asian and American education”. Acontradictory of the Asian school system, is the conformity that should be upheld. This accomplishes better learning because it becomes the “thing to do”. When everyone is on the same curriculum there is no other alternative but to pursue the herd. While conformity creates better math scholars, it demises the aspect of creativity and individuality. The boat may float, but not posses any inspiration or differentiation from the others.(Fraser, 2004) The U.S. places a much larger emphasis on creativity and choice. Thus supplying students with opportunities that assist them learn about them selves, and evolve original ideas. An important attribute that the U.S. education system lacks is the idea of effort being exactly correlated to success. In his article “Japan's School System”, James Kilpatrick states that “The Japanese idea is that all young children have the same potential for learning”. It is effort that separates successful students from the unsuccessful students.(Tyack, 2008)

Though the American student may believe that they work hard, we find that the Asian student is at a much greater grade of pressure. As we saw in the preceding passage, grave force is put on the Asian student. In farther examination of the article “Japan's School System”, ...