As junior year high school students, some of our teachers would always tell us that we should be aware and conscious of the current problems and issues that face the public funded education system in the United States since we are studying in a publicly funded high school. One of our teachers gave us a research report assignment about the topic of current problems or issues currently facing the publicly funded high school system in the U.S. I focused my report on the educational imbalance that is facing various public high school systems in the country.
In my research report topic, I focused on the educational imbalance of how our level of competitiveness and the rates of passing grades of examinations in science, mathematics and technology subjects are falling compared to the rates of passing grades in developed countries in Europe and Asia. Based on the books and reading materials that I read and studied in the library and from online materials in the Internet, I found out that in the last 25 years, many elementary school students in the fourth grade level have only moderately improved their skills in mathematics. But in the same period, the elementary school students in the 12th grade level have barely or not improved at all in their skills in mathematics, which means that many 12th grade students have a hard time in solving basic problems in mathematics.
I also read educational studies by experts that this educational imbalance of barely or not improving level of skills in mathematics from the 8th grade to the 12th grade levels would affect the students when they graduate from high school. They would enter universities and colleges at a level of educational preparedness that would not equip them for the subjects in the sciences, mathematics and technology that is taken up in the higher education level.
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