Education is an essential tool in our life. It is encompassed critical skills such as decision-making, mental dexterity, logical thinking and problem-solving. People face challenges in their personal and professional life that require key elements to solve them. The problems and challenges may vary in personal life but the design of solving depends upon how well-educated and self-awareness the person is actualized. A good education system in a country helps to measure and determine the working force of a country (Elstad, p.94-110). It helps to measure the invention and innovation that increases the industrialization of a nation.
For instance, the education system enhances the absorption of its students into the external and internal world. It promotes employment, earning, poverty and health reduction among other disparities in society. It also compares the relationship between its employees and functional products in innovation and invention globally thus drawing a broader conclusion of a good educational system. Should the US education system be changed? The US education system should change in comparison with that Iceland’s structure. Generally, the US education system and structure are ranked to be the best in terms of offering inventive and innovative knowledge to its students across the world.
However, the primary and upper section needs to be enhanced and advanced to increase the numbers of children and students of all communities attending basic education to increase chances of opportunities. The US education system is not single as other nations have, the reason being of several districts in the country exercise their regulation and duties to ensure efficient and effective education in the country.
Despite the many educational systems, the US faces many challenges that cannot afford to change education system; some of the challenges include many districts with different policies regulations and frameworks, lack of funding for education, shortage of trained and professional teachers and challenges faced by disparities among racial groups causing a high rate of dropout of some of the students.
The many districts with different policies and structural frameworks in the US mitigate the chances of changing the educational system. For instance, the working environment of a teacher in New York varies from that of Mississippi in the country thus causing a difference in the content offered to the students. Changing the education system in this manner will result in a fall in the economic state of each state in the country. It also leads to a difference in the earning that will increase the minimum wage for the teachers in each state causing turbulence to other economic activities of the country. Unlike in Iceland where the national and local government regulate the education system of the country which result in high performance for the students because a comparison of the performance of each teacher is analyzed.
Lack of funding for change in the US education system is another faced challenge that hinders the development of a new system. The funding of the US education system is estimated to be $1.3 trillion which comes from the national and the local government while the federal government amounts to $ 260 billion in the support of the educational program. The funding of the education program is estimated to be 7.2% of the US GDP. The new educational system will require a higher budget than that of the current state thus leading to the failure of the other sector of the economy. For instance, an additional amount on the educational budget will reduce appropriation on other sectors of the economy such as technology and agriculture causing inflation in the country. Unlike Iceland where the system of education starts funding from the preschool centres. The government of Iceland undertake the responsibility at all levels of education and hence creates and drafts a set of policies that regulate its members across the country(Goff et al, p.153-170). Education is taken as the bedrock of the country’s economy hence many policies and guidelines are passed to enhance its education system globally.
However, changing the US education system could influence great change in the economy. With the available resources; educational stakeholders can create and design sets of policies that allow education to all levels of races despite the disparities across the country to enhance the logic and mentality agility of all children in the state(Merz-Atalik & Kerstin, p.9-34). Educational stakeholders should ensure resource equality and in a just manner to provide opportunities for all thus driving the economy. The pressure for change will increase innovation and invention in the industries, which increases chances of employment, and health and reduces poverty across society.
In conclusion, the educational system helps to equip learners with critical knowledge essential for making profound decision-making. It also helps to increase logical thinking and problem-solving skills on professional and personal levels. The educational system of the US should remain neutral because it requires more funding and resources that will interfere with other economic activities of the countries resulting in inflation.
Work Cited
Elstad, Eyvind. “The Evolution of Extended Universal Compulsory Schooling in Sweden, Norway and Denmark: Policy Borrowing and Path-dependent Processes.” Nordic Studies in Education 43.1 (2023): 94-110.
https://noredstudies.org/index.php/nse/article/view/5422
Goff, Kerby, Eric Silver, and Inga Dora Sigfusdottir. “Academic Orientation as a Function of Moral Fit: The Role of Individualizing Morality.” Sociology of Education 95.2 (2022): 153-170.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00380407211072428
Merz-Atalik, Kerstin. “Canada as a “Driving Force” for Inclusion Activists in European Countries? 1: Comparative Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Europe and Canada.” European Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Canada. Routledge, 2022. 9-34.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003204572-3/canada-driving-force-inclusion-activists-european-countries-1-kerstin-merz-atalik
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