Abstract:
Many things are right about American Education -many that we take for granted:
- it is free and universal
- it provides equal opportunity for all - citizen and alien
- its teachers are the best educated in our history
- its teachers are assuming greater professional and public leadership
- it has access to instructional materials and technology better than those of any other nation in the world
- its students have more rights and exercise greater responsibility than those of any other nation
- it has proven its value in preparing American citizens for the ups and downs of life by its contribution to the achievements of the space age and its human contribution to the American people's ability to cope with Vietnam and Kent State - with economic depression - and Watergage
- it continues to be restless, testing old ideas, undertaking new responsibilities from early childhood education to life-long learning
Finally, and most important, what's right about American education is that its children are learning. And not only are children learning, but adolescents and preteens, and those unpredictable teens, too. They're learning in unprecedented numbers: and they're learning fantastic information, concepts, and ideas. They're coping with facts and formulas and figures unknown when many of us went to school, and they're preparing well for jobs and professions unknown to us and to them.
Keywords:
American education
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