It’s easy to proclaim this or that about how great a given person is, or how great a given country is, but rather, the proof is in the eating of the pudding. When we look at America, especially in consideration of how much money has been allocated to our various school facilities, it has to be admitted that our test scores do not reflect that we are the preeminent educationally accomplished country in the world, with very talented students who have learned well. Indeed, America is no better than middling and clearly does not lead the world in the educational proficiency of its students.
We read at proxlearn.com that “In 2022, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) assessed education systems in over eighty OECD countries and non-OECD countries.” was administered, and the result was that “…the United States ranks in ninth place globally.” This would fairly indicate that even though America believes it has the best of the best within its shores, it clearly does not, which thereby does not bode well for the future of this nation as being or maintaining its dominance over all other nations.
Further to the point, we are told that “…The gap between scores in the ninetieth and tenth percentiles is nearly 300 points,” which signifies that on the one hand America does have some incredibly talented and bright students, but also reflects on the other hand that America has a core of students that simply aren’t educated very well, and are far from proficient in core educational studies such as mathematics, science, and literacy. This would seem to indicate that not only do we have a clear educational bifurcation in America, which thus fairly reflects that not all of our schools are equal one to another; but also, in all probability, this nation apparently does not care to do anything constructive to ameliorate this, which is especially disappointing in regards to the fact that those students that are most vulnerable because of having been born in an area in which there is little opportunity that surrounds them, somehow do not have appropriate access to an educational facility that will provide them with the necessary accouterments to become something of educational merit.
So too, it has to be admitted that the more “dead weight” that this nation’s peoples has to carry, because a significant portion of its population is functionally illiterate, the less productivity will thereby be accomplished, along with the salient fact that those productive members of society are thereby burdened with carrying those who are unable to carry their own weight, forever.
Indeed, one of the fundamental priorities of any good governance is to see that each and every citizen of this nation has a good education, which thereby provides those citizens with the fair opportunity to be of value to this nation, along with providing them with the tools that will bring them personal success. This would then permit America to demonstrate to the world, at large, that America really is the greatest nation, proven by the fact that they are not only highly educated but that they use their skills for the benefit of the society that they are an active member of.