Gaining Credit

Before you bash and criticize the american way of schooling first look at the validity of the PISA tests, which measure worldwide academic performance and claim that the US is 17th of the 65 countries that took the test. Of course the US is one of the most diverse countries in the world so naturally races will score high and races will score low. Thanks to terrible scores in reading from Hispanic and African-American students the US scores are very low, especially when compared to a "homogeneous" country like Finland or Singapore. If we want the american people to respect our teachers we first must respect and spend time for our children's education which gains attention through the PISA. Because our wonderful nation has always been so ethnically diverse and so very kind to stranger immigrants we must make our education system complement this elementary fact. Education cannot only teach white kids how to write well, it has to teach our new immigrants how to catch up in the race. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/27/how-to-raise-the-status-of-teachers/consider-cultural-differences